Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS suddenly not mounting

[Ian Bloss]

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NTFS

Make sure everything is set accordingly

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 12:54 Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>         I did an "emerge -NuD world" last night and when completed, shut
> the
> machine down. Upon booting today, localmount can't mount ntfs partitions
> I use to dual boot Win7. I get an error along the lines of
>
> Unknown file system 'ntfs'
>
> This appears during the boot process and also if I do "mount -a" for the
> ntfs partitions. This problem during booting causes many things to fail
> resulting, eventually, in X/KDE/sddm from firing up and I'm dumped at a
> cold, dark, command prompt, instead of a colourful, flashy graphical
> login. Dos and Linux mounts are still good.
>
>         In fstab I commented out the mounting of the three partitions in
> question, rebooted and everything fires up correctly, with the obvious
> of no ntfs access.
>
>         Checking versions, this has just happened and the latest version of
> ntfs3g is 2016.2.22. I have rebuilt kernels and ntfs3g multiple times
> and still no joy. I downgraded to the second last version, 2015.3.14,
> and now everything is good. I can only summise that the latest version
> is dodgy.
>
>         Has anyone come across anything similar? I thought I would check
> here
> before filing a bug.
>
>         Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
>                 Andrew
>
>