Re: [SOLVED] Re: Automatically mounting USB sticks

Michael <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:29:01 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID	<1952889.tdWV9SEqCh@rogueboard>

On Sunday, 22 March 2026 11:56:52 Greenwich Mean Time Dr Rainer Woitok 
wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> On Friday, 2026-03-20 17:11:46 +0000, you wrote:
> > ...
> > I assume your services start up without errors at boot and
> > syslog/dmesg do not complain.
> 
> Thanks for reminding me of syslog!   I checked the  syslog file from
> the 17-th for my successful mounts  of USB sticks before the Gentoo
> upgrade, and to my surprise  the USB stick was not mounted  by some
> DBus incanta- tion, but rather directly via "ntfs-3g".   Running "man
> ntfs-3g" pointed me to file  "etc/fuse.conf"  (provided by package 
> "sys-fs/fuse-common", which HAD BEEN upgraded on that day) where the
> option "user_allow_other" was commented out.   I don't know whether
> or not this option did not ex- ist in earlier versions  or then was
> on by default,  but uncommenting it solved the problem! Phew ...
> 
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer

Do you have the NTFS in-kernel driver enabled?

CONFIG_NTFS3_FS=y

I do not use auto-mounting for removable drives (having the DE 
interfering with my hardware would drive me insane), but I don't really 
understand why it would try to use NTFS over fuse.  :-/

I have notice NTFS is being tried out by the kernel on a non-NTFS nvme 
drive here, but I haven't looked into it further:

[ 2.067322] ntfs3(nvme0n1p2): Primary boot signature is not NTFS.
[ 2.067747] ntfs3(nvme0n1p2): try to read out of volume at offset 
0x18fffffe00

USB drives with FAT32 or exFAT do not exhibit this symptom.  I can mount 
them manually using the desktop tool tray.  I don't have any USB drives 
with NTFS on them.

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