Bug#698727: debian-installer: /dev/sdb1 (USB stick) added to /etc/fstab with default options (user), preventing future NTFS auto-mounts
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20121114
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainers,
While installing Wheezy b4 from USB drive, debian-installer (I think)
adds a line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
The existence of this line, specifically the 'user' option (I think),
prevents mounting of NTFS filesystems by ntfs-3g, which results
in a standard ntfs-3g error:
"""Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the
external FUSE library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild
NTFS-3G with integrated FUSE support and make it setuid root.
Please see more information at
http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged""";
Reported are other USB mounting issues as well:
https://www.google.com/search?q=(debian+OR+ubuntu)+mount+usb0+(ntfs+OR+"")+/etc/fstab
The fix is to comment-out or delete the fstab line and let the
automounting be done by udev, which is part of base install anyway.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
-- no debconf information
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