Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:32:33 -0500 From: felmon Subject: Re: new WD passport filesystem? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware References: <87sjpyxrfw.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> <87k4baxoer.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> <87bowlyd24.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> <8739hxxtea.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:32:33 -0500 Lines: 72 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-j9x5Mi2GORFlQv/hX8UK9QgztiociYO7csap6yxjIW1M36TGVKbZUFYUJDN99dQl60ulq9JdW6EIslO!or2kUgKg3clhrE1aQOAslaITfexUkRLDkqs7MTtNDgUvtnyg2DyQMCqYuNHb/7aYsQ4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3858 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.hardware:533 On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:01:33 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > [...] >> >> sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /Win7 > > The mount command reports for my NTFS 1 Gb drive when using either your > suggested ntfs-3g driver as well as the ntfs driver as follows: > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/backup type fuseblk (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096) > > Why is the type "fuseblk" rather than ntfs? I don't know the behind-the-scenes technical reason. fuseblk is a work- around that allows mounting ntfs so I guess it is invoked with your -t ntfs switch also. I just used the '-t ntfs' and confirm you are right, it works now too (debian with 2.6.32-5-686). not sure when this happened but it's good to know! > I still don't understand if I still have a problem. Firsdt, when I plug > in my new 1 Tb Passport or the older drive, they automount and are > accessible. However, they don't dismount automatically. Shouldn't they? > > For example, if I unplug a drive assigned to /dev/sdb1 and then plug in > another drive, mount says it is assigned to /dev/sdc1 and the old drive > still seen even though unplugged: I can't help since I don't auto-mount or auto-dismount. hmm, I do have Mint running on a laptop which automounts; I believe one is expected to manually do a 'safe' dismount though. I defer to someone who can help you with safely auto-dismounting and the other questions. I wasn't sure about the concerns about how the devices are identified, whether sr0, scd1 or sdb1. but do you really have /dev/ sda15? about dismounting, I assume writes have to be sync-ed as they occur. I'd be scared to rely on automatic dismounting. Felmon > > $ mount > ... > fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) /dev/sdb1 on > /media/mirror type ext3 (rw) /dev/sdc1 on /media/backup type fuseblk > (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096) > > However, blkip tells a different story: > > /dev/sda15: UUID="87e151ff-28b8-4c90-812c-13e3706262be" TYPE="ext4" > /dev/sdc1: LABEL="My Passport" UUID="8A2CF4F62CF4DE5F" TYPE="ntfs" > > Another thing I don't understand is that installation with udev created > these lines line in fstab: > > /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/sda1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > However, sda1 is my HD: > > $ mount > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw) > > Shouldn't fstab look to the sr0 instead of the sda1 device file for usb > CDROM drive? > > Haines