Re: [Grml] /etc/fstab and mounting USB drives

* Tom White tom@bulldogcountry.com [20061104 00:15]:

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Michael Prokop wrote:

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Please show output of:

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# vol_id /dev/usb-sda1

# vol_id /dev/usb-sda1 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem ID_FS_TYPE=ntfs ID_FS_VERSION=3.1 ID_FS_UUID=CEE64717E646FEE9 ID_FS_LABEL=MX320G ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=MX320G

Ok, finally debugged it: mounting NTFS via label does not work (neither mount.ntfs-3g nor mount.ntfs-fuse seem to support it).

grml-scanpartitions version 0.3-10 is aware of this fact and adds entries like:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs ... 0 0 # ntfs does not support mount by label

to /etc/fstab.

regards, -mika-