Many thanks to xyz321 for updating
ntfs-3g and to af123 for uploading it. I am most grateful.
In theory it should fix the problem with "Box B", but I have to say it has always worked for me. This new version should retry a few times if it fails to unmount the drive.
In the case of box A, has the partition type been set to NTFS in the partition table?
I have been testing with the new update, several times, yesterday evening and this afternoon.
ntfs-3g does now work on "BoxB" at boot-up .... hooray!
It re-tries a few times and then clicks in. (rag.log below)
ntfs-3g still doesn't work on "BoxA" at boot-up, though as before, it will work if the external NTFS drive is removed and reconnected. (see rag.log below)
I don't know where to look for a partition table, please explain where to find it and I will check.
To double check that it's not the external drive that is causing problems, I tried the external NTFS drive that was connected to "BoxA" on "BoxB" - where it
did mount successfully at boot-up using
ntfs-3g - so it seems like it's a difference in the 'boxes' and not the drives thats causing problems? ...
BoxA has original
virtual-disk, and
mvdisks installed, but does not have
ntfsprogs installed.
BoxB has
virtual-disk2, and
ntfsprogs installed, but does not have
mvdisks installed.
Is this relevant in any way? (What does
ntfsprogs do exactly?)
I am interested that xyz123 or Black Hole have always found
ntfs-3g to work fine at boot-up ... I wonder what I'm doing wrong
.... straight out of the box, NTFS external drives sometimes come with back-up and/or encryption software pre-installed on the disk, which I generally ignore or scoop up and tidy away into a folder - could those files/folders be causing problems for BoxA?
rag.log for BoxA (which has
mvdisks and original
virtual-disk installed ... )
ntfs-3g still not working at boot-up
Code:
>>> Contents of /var/log/rag.log 11.84 KiB
--------- Info for Modinit PID 378 ---------
378: Date: Sat Jan 1 00:00:08 GMT 2000
378: MDEV: sda1
378: ACTION: add
378: Model: HDR
378: Device: /dev/sda1
378: Disk: sda
378:01/01/2000 00:00: Waiting for disk to become ready...
378:01/01/2000 00:00: disk ready after 0 seconds
378:01/01/2000 00:00: /dev/sda1 is NOT formatted as ext2/3
378:01/01/2000 00:00: /dev/sda1 is NOT removable.
378:01/01/2000 00:00: Waiting for the disk to mount...
378:01/01/2000 00:00: still waiting...
378:01/01/2000 00:00: still waiting...
--------- Info for Modinit PID 550 ---------
550: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:21:50 GMT 2014
550: MDEV: sdb1
550: ACTION: add
550: Model: HDR
550: Device: /dev/sdb1
550: Disk: sdb
--------- Info for Modinit PID 554 ---------
554: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:21:50 GMT 2014
554: MDEV: sdb2
554: ACTION: add
554: Model: HDR
554: Device: /dev/sdb2
554: Disk: sdb
554:21/01/2014 14:21: sdb2 is candidate for mod [/mnt/hd2]
554:21/01/2014 14:21: Waiting for disk to become ready...
550:21/01/2014 14:21: Waiting for disk to become ready...
554:21/01/2014 14:21: disk ready after 0 seconds
--------- Info for Modinit PID 546 ---------
546: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:21:51 GMT 2014
546: MDEV: sdb3
546: ACTION: add
546: Model: HDR
546: Device: /dev/sdb3
546: Disk: sdb
546:21/01/2014 14:21: Waiting for disk to become ready...
554:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sdb2 is formatted as ext2/3
554:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sdb2 is NOT removable.
554:21/01/2014 14:21: Waiting for the disk to mount...
550:21/01/2014 14:21: disk ready after 0 seconds
546:21/01/2014 14:21: disk ready after 0 seconds
550:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sdb1 is formatted as ext2/3
550:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sdb1 is NOT removable.
550:21/01/2014 14:21: Waiting for the disk to mount...
546:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sdb3 is formatted as ext2/3
546:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sdb3 is NOT removable.
546:21/01/2014 14:21: Waiting for the disk to mount...
378:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sda1 mounted on /media/drive1
378:21/01/2014 14:21: mounted after 2 seconds.
378:21/01/2014 14:21: Waiting for modinit to complete.
378:21/01/2014 14:21: still waiting...
554:21/01/2014 14:21: still waiting...
546:21/01/2014 14:21: still waiting...
550:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sdb1 mounted on /mnt/hd1
550:21/01/2014 14:21: mounted after 0 seconds.
550:21/01/2014 14:21: Waiting for modinit to complete.
550:21/01/2014 14:21: still waiting...
378:21/01/2014 14:21: still waiting...
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554:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sdb2 mounted on /mnt/hd2
554:21/01/2014 14:21: mounted after 1 second.
378:21/01/2014 14:21: still waiting...
554:21/01/2014 14:21: +++ Running modinit +++
546:21/01/2014 14:21: /dev/sdb3 mounted on /mnt/hd3
546:21/01/2014 14:21: mounted after 1 second.
546:21/01/2014 14:21: Waiting for modinit to complete.
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546:21/01/2014 14:23: timeout, aborting.
554:21/01/2014 14:23: +++ Modinit complete +++
554:21/01/2014 14:23: sdb: Non-removable disk, skipping package scan.
--------- Info for Modinit PID 5861 ---------
5861: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:26:57 GMT 2014
5861: MDEV: sda1
5861: ACTION: remove
5861: Model: HDR
5861: Device: /dev/sda1
5861: Disk: sda
--------- Info for Modinit PID 6481 ---------
6481: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:27:42 GMT 2014
6481: MDEV: sda1
6481: ACTION: add
6481: Model: HDR
6481: Device: /dev/sda1
6481: Disk: sda
6481:21/01/2014 14:27: Waiting for disk to become ready...
6481:21/01/2014 14:27: disk ready after 0 seconds
6481:21/01/2014 14:27: /dev/sda1 is NOT formatted as ext2/3
6481:21/01/2014 14:27: /dev/sda1 is NOT removable.
6481:21/01/2014 14:27: Waiting for the disk to mount...
6481:21/01/2014 14:27: /dev/sda1 mounted on /media/drive1
6481:21/01/2014 14:27: mounted after 0 seconds.
6631:21/01/2014 14:27: ntfs-3g: fuse filesystem is available
6631:21/01/2014 14:27: ntfs-3g: Attempting to remount /dev/sda1...
6631:21/01/2014 14:27: ntfs-3g: Unmounted /media/drive1
6631:21/01/2014 14:27: ntfs-3g: Mounting /media/usb-drive1 on /dev/sda1
mkdir: can't create directory '/media/My Video/usb-drive1': File exists
6481:21/01/2014 14:27: sda: Non-removable disk, skipping package scan.
--------- Info for Modinit PID 7999 ---------
7999: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:29:39 GMT 2014
7999: MDEV: sda1
7999: ACTION: remove
7999: Model: HDR
7999: Device: /dev/sda1
7999: Disk: sda
7999:21/01/2014 14:29: Mount point: /media/usb-drive1
8026:21/01/2014 14:29: ntfs-3g: Unmounting /media/usb-drive1
umount: can't forcibly umount /dev/sda1: Invalid argument
rag.log for BoxB (which has
virtual-disk2 and
ntfsprogs installed and no
mvdisks ... )
ntfs-3g now working at boot-up, after a few tries
Code:
>>> Contents of /var/log/rag.log 6.86 KiB
--------- Info for Modinit PID 367 ---------
367: Date: Sat Jan 1 00:00:08 GMT 2000
367: MDEV: sda1
367: ACTION: add
367: Model: HDR
367: Device: /dev/sda1
367: Disk: sda
367:01/01/2000 00:00: Waiting for disk to become ready...
367:01/01/2000 00:00: disk ready after 0 seconds
367:01/01/2000 00:00: /dev/sda1 is NOT formatted as ext2/3
367:01/01/2000 00:00: /dev/sda1 is NOT removable.
367:01/01/2000 00:00: Waiting for the disk to mount...
367:01/01/2000 00:00: still waiting...
367:01/01/2000 00:00: still waiting...
367:01/01/2000 00:00: still waiting...
--------- Info for Modinit PID 548 ---------
548: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:32:38 GMT 2014
548: MDEV: sdb3
548: ACTION: add
548: Model: HDR
548: Device: /dev/sdb3
548: Disk: sdb
--------- Info for Modinit PID 554 ---------
554: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:32:38 GMT 2014
554: MDEV: sdb2
554: ACTION: add
554: Model: HDR
554: Device: /dev/sdb2
554: Disk: sdb
--------- Info for Modinit PID 550 ---------
550: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:32:38 GMT 2014
550: MDEV: sdb1
550: ACTION: add
550: Model: HDR
550: Device: /dev/sdb1
550: Disk: sdb
554:21/01/2014 14:32: sdb2 is candidate for mod [/mnt/hd2]
550:21/01/2014 14:32: Waiting for disk to become ready...
550:21/01/2014 14:32: disk ready after 0 seconds
554:21/01/2014 14:32: Waiting for disk to become ready...
548:21/01/2014 14:32: Waiting for disk to become ready...
550:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sdb1 is formatted as ext2/3
550:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sdb1 is NOT removable.
548:21/01/2014 14:32: disk ready after 0 seconds
548:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sdb3 is formatted as ext2/3
548:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sdb3 is NOT removable.
548:21/01/2014 14:32: Waiting for the disk to mount...
550:21/01/2014 14:32: Waiting for the disk to mount...
554:21/01/2014 14:32: disk ready after 0 seconds
554:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sdb2 is formatted as ext2/3
554:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sdb2 is NOT removable.
554:21/01/2014 14:32: Waiting for the disk to mount...
367:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sda1 mounted on /media/drive1
367:21/01/2014 14:32: mounted after 3 seconds.
548:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sdb3 mounted on /mnt/hd3
554:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sdb2 mounted on /mnt/hd2
550:21/01/2014 14:32: /dev/sdb1 mounted on /mnt/hd1
554:21/01/2014 14:32: mounted after 0 seconds.
548:21/01/2014 14:32: mounted after 0 seconds.
554:21/01/2014 14:32: +++ Running modinit +++
367:21/01/2014 14:32: Waiting for modinit to complete.
550:21/01/2014 14:32: mounted after 0 seconds.
548:21/01/2014 14:32: Waiting for modinit to complete.
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--------- Info for Modinit PID 1473 ---------
1473: Date: Tue Jan 21 14:33:08 GMT 2014
1473: MDEV: sdc1
1473: ACTION: add
1473: Model: HDR
1473: Device: /dev/sdc1
1473: Disk: sdc
1473:21/01/2014
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550:21/01/2014 14:33: still waiting...
367:21/01/2014 14:33: still waiting...
1473:21/01/2014 14:33: disk ready after 0 seconds
1473:21/01/2014 14:33: /dev/sdc1 is formatted as ext2/3
1473:21/01/2014 14:33: /dev/sdc1 is NOT removable.
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1473:21/01/2014 14:33: /dev/sdc1 mounted on /media/drive2
367:21/01/2014 14:33: still waiting...
1473:21/01/2014 14:33: mounted after 0 seconds.
1473:21/01/2014 14:33: Waiting for modinit to complete.
1473:21/01/2014 14:33: still waiting...
548:21/01/2014 14:33: still waiting...
554:21/01/2014 14:33: +++ Modinit complete +++
554:21/01/2014 14:33: sdb: Non-removable disk, skipping package scan.
550:21/01/2014 14:33: completed after 22 seconds.
367:21/01/2014 14:33: completed after 22 seconds.
550:21/01/2014 14:33: sdb: Non-removable disk, skipping package scan.
1473:21/01/2014 14:33: completed after 1 second.
1863:21/01/2014 14:33: ntfs-3g: fuse filesystem is available
1863:21/01/2014 14:33: ntfs-3g: Attempting to remount /dev/sda1...
1473:21/01/2014 14:33: sdc: Non-removable disk, skipping package scan.
1863:21/01/2014 14:33: ntfs-3g: Unmounted /media/drive1
548:21/01/2014 14:33: completed after 23 seconds.
1863:21/01/2014 14:33: ntfs-3g: Mounting /media/usb-drive1 on /dev/sda1
548:21/01/2014 14:33: sdb: Non-removable disk, skipping package scan.
367:21/01/2014 14:33: sda: Non-removable disk, skipping package scan.
(Dear Brian and BH ... to make it readable I added in ALL the line breaks
)