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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org