[Mageia-discuss] How to mount NTFS partitions at boot?

Thu Nov 29 20:01:54 CET 2012

On 11/29/2012 01:40 PM, Luca Olivetti wrote:
+> Al 29/11/12 18:28, En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
+> unt" lists virtual partitions (dev, usb, etc.) a bazillion times? (it also showed a vfat partition mounted twice).
+>>
+>> And now I realized that every normal partition (with the exception of /) is mounted 3 times, e.g.
+>>
+>> $ mount | grep '/home '
+>> /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime)
+>> /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=600)
+>> /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
+>> /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
+>>
+>>
+>> this doesn't sound right.
+>
+> It turns out that during the semi-failed upgrade from mandriva, the post scriplet from util-linux didn't run, so /etc/mtab wasn't a simlink to /proc/mounts
+>
+> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655571
+>
+> I don't know if this also explains the problem of the ntfs partitions or not.
+>
+> Bye
+>
+I don't have the knowledge to answer your question, but I just want to 
+add my $.02.
+
+Reading of head-scratching problems like this are the reason that, in 
+nearly 11 years of using Linux, I never "upgrade" to a new release. I 
+always do clean installs, with the exception of telling the installer to 
+leave my /home partition alone. Believe me, I understand the desire to 
+go the upgrade path, and I know the developers work very hard to make it 
+possible, but the risk of problems is just too high for me. Clean 
+installs have almost always worked for me first time, every time.
+
+TJ
+
+