[ale] ntfS-3g

[timothy@meanor.net]

Generally speaking, the system will try to fsck everything in /etc/fstab on boot up.  If a device in fstab is not available, the system will go into maintenance mode so you can fix the issue.  You might be able to put a "0" in the sixth field of the fstab entry for your Mybook to tell it not to fsck it.

-Tim


>>OUCH.
>>well I installed ntfs-3g yesterday,just to see if I could write to my XP 
>>partition. Running openSUSE 10.2
>>
>>well, system got flaky, things stopped working right ( gedit opened a blank 
>>window, nothing to edit, nothing to open, firefox kept freezing & crashing) 
>>so.... I rebooted.
>>started with this LVM MD RAID stuff, said my /home partition hadn't been 
>>checked in 49710 days. I also had /dev/sdf5 /Mybook in fstab, but it wasn't 
>>attached just now.
>>once it finished doing fsck, it gave me the root login prompt, or CTRL-D for 
>>
>>maintenance.
>>
>>once I logged in, mount showed only root.
>>did init 6, and it ran the same fsck, same ending.
>>finally I did a 
>>mount  /dev/sda6 /home
>>init 5
>>
>>and got back to my wonderful world of windows. what did I do wrong, and do I 
>>
>>HAVE to have the Mybook activated when I reboot?? I commented it out of the 
>>fstab for now..
>>
>>-- 
>>Paul Cartwright
>>Registered Linux user # 367800
>>Ubuntu User number is # 12459
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