https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NTFS
Make sure everything is set accordingly On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 12:54 Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.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 > >
