Re: Mounting ntfs filesytems

[William via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

Hello.

I faced the same issues back in March[0], the problem is that ntfs-3g is required to mount the filesystem with read/write support, but if you define an entry on the system configuration it'll stop the boot process, I don't have much clue as to why it hangs the boot process but I suspect it has to do with ntfs-3g lacking included FUSE support and the init refusing to continue, I was told back in the day that compiling ntfs-3g with the FUSE library included could solve this problem.


What I ended doing was define an entry for the partition, but with the "mount?" value set to false (#f)[1] so you can mount it after boot is complete with "sudo mount -a". Maybe you could configure the desktop environment or a cronjob to run this command, but bare in mind that it needs root access to mount the filesystem with read/write support via ntfs-3g because of the setuid/gid issue with FUSE.


0: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46980#1
1: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/File-Systems.html#File-Systems-1

On 22 October 2024 16:29:04 UTC, Divya Ranjan <divya@subvertising.org> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I’m trying to mount a ntfs filesystem, I know it doesn’t work the simple way like mounting ext4 or btrfs but is there any other way to automate it so that I don’t have to just run the commands manually every time I log in? On irc I was directed to look into udisks-service-type, but I don’t know how to configure it to mount my specific disk. Any help on that would be great.
>
>I know it has been notoriously difficult to mount ntfs-like filesystems on boot in guix[0], but has there been any progress in that since then?
>
>[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2021-10/msg00039.html
>
>Regards,
>-- 
>Divya Ranjan,
>Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software.
>