Bug 350110 - Filesystem type NTFS should be lowercase in fstab
Summary: Filesystem type NTFS should be lowercase in fstab
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: partitionmanager
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 1.1.0
Platform: Kubuntu Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrius Štikonas
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Reported: 2015-07-11 10:09 UTC by Nilli
Modified: 2018-02-21 01:38 UTC (History)
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Description Nilli 2015-07-11 10:09:35 UTC
I used KDE Partition Manager to set a custom mount location for an NTFS partition. The /etc/fstab file was then saved with the filesystem type NTFS in uppercase. When I rebooted, Kubuntu failed to mount the partition during boot so I pressed S to skip as instructed. I then opened Dolphin to try to mount and got this error message:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'NTFS'

I then edited /etc/fstab manually with nano and changed NTFS to ntfs (from uppercase to lowercase), rebooted again, and it mounted just fine.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create NTFS partition with KDE Partition Manager
2. Use KDE Partition Manager to mount the partition in a custom location so that /etc/fstab is modified.
3. Try to mount the partition (rebooting might be necessary, I don't know)

Actual Results:  
The partition is not mounted due to this error message:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'NTFS'


Expected Results:  
The system should have tried to mount filesystem type 'ntfs' (lowercase) rather than 'NTFS' (uppercase).
Comment 1 Andrius Štikonas 2016-02-29 01:15:36 UTC
Seems to work fine in 2.0. There is still a bug that hides Ok/Cancel buttons in mount dialog but it is already fixed (just not released yet)
Comment 2 Aurélien Murith 2018-02-21 01:38:02 UTC
I just had a similar problem. Using partitionmanager 3.3.1 I set a NTFS partition to be automounted, then I restarted the computer and the boot process failed, telling me it was unable to mount that partition. I was given a rescue console, from which I opened /etc/fstab, and saw that my partition's filesystem was written uppercase (NTFS), but the other ones were lowercase (btrfs). I changed it to lowercase ntfs, and the system was able to boot normally again.