Bug 103809

I talked to one of the NTFS driver developers. "chkdsk" is intentional, and the
NTFS driver shouldn't cause any problems. I would still prefer to have
partitions in 'ro', as  the driver is pretty limited (no new files, just
overwrite/append, etc.) and does not provide full functionality.

What is the entry in /etc/fstab for this harddisk? what say 'mount' ? Is this a 
external or in system harddisk?

There is no fstab entry, it's a portable USB HDD, plugged in when needed.

and the other question? What say 'mount' ? Could you please attach 
/var/log/messages after plugin the device? Is this already the behavior with a 
beta 3?

It's the behavior from beta1 to beta3.

czanik@linux:~> mount
/dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs
(ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)
/dev/hda5 on /windows/D type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,utf8=true)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=reiserfs)
/dev/sda6 on /media/H_SZEMET type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=ntfs,nls=utf8)
/dev/sda5 on /media/H_ADAT type subfs
(rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid,utf8=true)

/var/log/messages:
Aug 29 20:59:52 linux kernel: usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 2
Aug 29 20:59:52 linux kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Aug 29 20:59:52 linux kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Aug 29 20:59:52 linux kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Aug 29 20:59:52 linux kernel: usb-storage: device found at 2
Aug 29 20:59:52 linux kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before
scanning
Aug 29 20:59:52 linux kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Aug 29 20:59:52 linux kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Aug 29 21:00:00 linux kernel:   Vendor: ST380021  Model: A                 Rev: 3.19
Aug 29 21:00:00 linux kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI
SCSI revision: 00
Aug 29 21:00:00 linux kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Aug 29 21:00:00 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors
(80026 MB)
Aug 29 21:00:00 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 29 21:00:00 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors
(80026 MB)
Aug 29 21:00:00 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 29 21:00:00 linux kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 >
Aug 29 21:00:00 linux kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun 0
Aug 29 21:00:01 linux hal-subfs-mount[5892]: registered at resmgrd and called(0)
/bin/mount -t subfs -o fs=reiserfs,sync,nosuid,nodev,exec /dev/sda1 "/medi
a/usbdisk"
Aug 29 21:00:01 linux kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with
standard journal
Aug 29 21:00:01 linux kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: using ordered data mode
Aug 29 21:00:01 linux kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: journal params: device sda1, size
8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit
 age 30, max trans age 30
Aug 29 21:00:01 linux kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: checking transaction log (sda1)
Aug 29 21:00:01 linux kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
Aug 29 21:00:02 linux hal-subfs-mount[5909]: registered at resmgrd and called(0)
/bin/mount -t subfs -o fs=ntfs,sync,nosuid,nodev,exec,nls=utf8 /dev/sda6 "
/media/H_SZEMET"
Aug 29 21:00:02 linux kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.
Aug 29 21:00:02 linux kernel: NTFS-fs error (device sda6): ntfs_check_logfile():
The two restart pages in $LogFile do not match.
Aug 29 21:00:02 linux kernel: NTFS-fs error (device sda6): load_system_files():
Failed to load $LogFile.  Mounting read-only.  Mount in Windows.
Aug 29 21:00:02 linux hal-subfs-mount[5918]: registered at resmgrd and called(0)
/bin/mount -t subfs -o fs=floppyfss,sync,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,utf8=tr
ue /dev/sda5 "/media/H_ADAT"
Aug 29 21:00:38 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 29 21:00:38 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 29 21:00:38 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 29 21:00:38 linux submountd: mount failure, No such device or address
Aug 29 21:00:38 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 29 21:00:38 linux kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256)

@Adrian: Any ideas? should we mount by default rw or not? I'm no preferences, 
since the write support for ntfs from kernel is more than useless normally.

we should go to ro mode, imho. but it should be configurable within HAL. 

The problem is sill there in beta 4 and makes not really sense to show rw and
than ... no rights for writing (see below). Please change to ro otherwise it is
confusing for someone.

mount
/dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /media/Data_Extern type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=ntfs,nls=utf8)

ls -lia /
 15 drwxr-xr-x    5 root root    136 Sep  3 17:01 media

ls -lia /media
17915 drwxrwxrwx   1 root root   0 Sep  3 17:01 Data_Extern
   16 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  48 Sep  3 11:16 cdrecorder
   17 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  48 Sep  3 11:16 cdrom

ls -lia /media/Data_Extern
 27 drwx------  1 root root    0 Sep 30  2004 RECYCLER
 33 drwx------  1 root root    0 Sep 29  2004 System Volume Information
 57 drwx------  1 root root    0 Oct 18  2004 Temp

echo "jkhsfjkhnsfkjs" > test.txt
bash: test.txt: Permission denied

Nobody sad that this issue is fixed.

fixed now in SVN for RC1