Fwd: How do I mount an external ntfs formatted harddisk manually and through /etc/fstab?

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2009/8/16 Jens Rasmus Liland <jensrasmus at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the late reply - I went on vacation for a while.
>
> I think 'mount_ntfs-3g' did the trick in terms of mounting /dev/da0s1
> manually. But I tried to add
>
> /dev/da0s1              /homewd         ntfs-3g    ro              0       0
>

Since 7.2 new parameter -o mountprog was introduced so you should be able
to set in fstab mounting with 3th party program like this:

/dev/acd0  /mnt  ntfs    ro,noauto,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g
   0       0

> ... but then the computer panicked, and went into single user mode. I think
> it happened because the ntfs-3g module is loaded later with the
> fusefs-stuff.

Or due to the wrong/unsupported syntax.

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