FSTAB issues...

[KenGordon]

I am, again, baffled: In the past, I have edited my /etc/fstab to enable attachment of two NTFS drives at boot.

System is FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p5

I have added the following two lines:

/dev/ada0s2 /mnt/WIN10 ntfs rw,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g,late,noauto 0 0
/dev/da4s1 /mnt/2TB ntfs rw,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g,late,noauto 0 0

...yet, although the system says it is mounting late file systems, nothing happens.

I then try mount -a

Nothing happens.

So, I then input, as root, from the command prompt the following;

ntfs-3g /dev/ada0s2 /mnt/WIN10 <ENTER>
and
ntfs-3g /dev/da4s1 /mnt/2TB <ENTER>

which works perfectly every time.

I change the filetype in the fstab to ntfs-3g and try again.

Still nothing.

So, what am I doing wrong? It has worked in the past. Now it no longer works.

Ken Gordon

 

[mer]

"noauto" means "don't automatically mount"
If you want them to be mounted automatically every system boot, remove the ",noauto".

If these are removable devices, make sure they are plugged in before booting.

The way you have fstab, you should be able to as root do:
mount /mnt/2TB
mount /mnt/WIN10