What's wrong with this /etc/fstab ?
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Tue Jun 5 18:36:19 UTC 2012
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 15:47 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 04:44:22AM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > Very strange things happen. With the line commented out the device can
> > be mounted without problems. But with the line uncommented this happens
> > (note that I'm running as root):
> > # mount /mnt/c
> > mount: only root can mount UUID=E0649EB1649E8A44 on /mnt/c
> > This fstab line worked perfectly on Fedora-16.
>
> Do you see anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages?
>
> Does 'getent group ntfs' work?
Nope. You have found the problem. As soon as I created the ntfs group,
everything started to work. Though I found this error message
# mount /mnt/c
mount: only root can mount UUID=E0649EB1649E8A44 on /mnt/c
which I got while running as root to be rather deceptive.
Thanks - jon
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