I'm running Fedora 14 with the 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686 kernel and Gnome 2.32.0. I have a few NTFS drives that are mounted when I start up. However, there is no entry for them in fstab and nothing in mtab. (EDIT: The NTFS drives aren't in /proc/mounts either) Furthermore there is no mention of any NTFS filesystems in /etc/filesystems and /proc/filesystems.
FYI, all of the NTFS commands on my system are as follows:
# compgen -c | grep ntfs
ntfs-3g
ntfsmount
ntfsmftalloc
ntfs-3g.probe
ntfsdump_logfile
ntfsfix
ntfsdecrypt
ntfs-3g
ntfs-3g.secaudit
ntfs-3g.usermap
ntfsls
ntfscat
ntfstruncate
ntfswipe
ntfsmount
lowntfs-3g
ntfscmp
ntfsinfo
ntfsck
ntfscluster
ntfsmove
ntfslabel
mount.ntfs-3g
mount.ntfs
mount.lowntfs-3g
mkntfs
ntfscp
mkfs.ntfs
ntfsundelete
mount.ntfs-fuse
ntfsclone
ntfsresize
Questions:
- How does a Linux machine auto-mount an NTFS drive without looking at fstab?
- How is an NTFS drive mounted without NTFS being listed in either of the above to filesystem files?
- Why is there no mention of a mounted NTFS filesystem in mtab even though they're mounted on my system and browsable?