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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Pete Eby
Greg Freemyer wrote:
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If that works, try doing the mkfs.ntfs at an offset sector. (See the man page.)
Then do the loopback mount to the offset.
If all of that works, there must be an issue with your image.
Greg
Howdy Greg,
That was a good idea - make a new ntfs image and try that. This confirms there is something else awry and it is not the image I am trying to moung as I run into the same thing here. Very odd indeed.:
Callandor:/virtual # dd if=/dev/zero of=ntfs_fs.img bs=1024 count=10000
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.0948274 s, 108 MB/s
Callandor:/virtual # mkfs.ntfs --force ntfs_fs.img
ntfs_fs.img is not a block device. ...
Callandor:/virtual # mount -o loop ntfs_fs.img /mnt
Cannot create link /etc/mtab~
Perhaps there is a stale lock file?
Yet of course I can mount the Ext3 image fine, and can mount thumb drives, no problem.
Now here is the kicker - I can not mount an NTFS partition for another physical drive in the server! Ah ha! So something in the upgrade from 11 to 11.1 seems to have broken this. Very strange:
/dev/sdb1 * 1 10453 83963691 7 HPFS/NTFS
Callandor:/virtual # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs-3g-mount: failed to access mountpoint /media/disk: Transport endpoint is not connected
Callandor:/virtual # mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs-3g-mount: failed to access mountpoint /media/disk: Transport endpoint is not connected
I will start to investigate this, but just wanted to let you know what I found.
Cheers, Pete
Seems like you have a specific issue with your installation because it works fine here. I also upgraded from 11.0 to 11.1, so I doubt it was a generic issue with the upgrade process. I would think about reinstalling the kernel, the mount package, the ntfs-3g package etc. The boot DVD also has a installation verify feature. I have never had it help me out, but it may worth a shot. Good luck. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org