Automatic mounting vs manual mounting: an issue (NTFS disk)

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I have a usb disk attached to my router which has several partitions. I need to share a partition. My issue Is:

  • when I mount such partition through the command mount /dev/sda5 mnt/sda5, the sharing works well as expected.
  • on the contrary, when I put partition data into /etc/config/fstab, restart the router and have the partition mounted, the sharing does not work (Windows tells me that I have insufficient right);
    In fstab I had the following relevant lines:
config mount
        option target '/mnt/sda5'
        option device 'dev/sda5'
        option enabled '1'
        option fstype 'ntfs'.

To have the partition shared, I have to unmount it through Luci, and then mount it manually.
I suppose that the manual mount command has some different default options than fstab... or not? How can I have my partition automatically mounted and shared?

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Do ls -l /mnt in both cases to check the ownership and permissions.

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After automount in fstab:

root@LEDE:/# ls -l /mnt
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Apr 15 14:25 sda1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Apr 15 14:25 sda2
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Apr 15 14:25 sda4
dr-x------    1 root     root          4096 Apr 14 15:21 sda5
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Apr 15 14:25 sda6
root@LEDE:/#

After manual mount:

root@LEDE:/#  ls -l /mnt
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Apr 15 14:25 sda1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Apr 15 14:25 sda2
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Apr 15 14:25 sda4
drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          4096 Apr 14 15:21 sda5
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Apr 15 14:25 sda6
root@LEDE:/#

I see the difference. But how can I obtain all the needed rights for automount?

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Hmmm. two things look strange in that fstab:

  • 'dev/sda5' is without the starting "/". Probably should be '/dev/sda5'
  • There is a dot after the fstype 'ntfs' option.

Possibly typos in this forum message, but might be genuine errors in the fstab file

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Possibly typos in this forum message, but might be genuine errors in the fstab file

Sorry, my typos.

6

I have the same problem with my ntfs drive, so far the only solution that's worked for me is to mount at boot with this in rc.local (system>startup in luci) -

ntfs-3g /dev/sda* /mnt/your_mount_point -o your,options

I've tried to mount through Luci in System>mount Points with the exact same options and it just doesn't work for some reason, really strange.

7

Thank you for your reply.

8

Mike, if I put it in Luci > System > Mount points without any option, the disk is mounted after rebooting the router (but I'm not able to share it). The mounting issue raises for me every time I try to set some mounting options...

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That's what mine does too, no options in System>Mount Points will mount my drive but I can't share (permission denied) and if I set my own options it won't mount at all.