persistent home on captive ntfs

Am trying to make persistent home on ntfs partition.

Made the following changes:

1. edit /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig

added the following :

case "$fs" in *[Nn][Tt][Ff][Ss]*)
# umount "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"; echo " ${RED}ERROR: WON'T MOUNT NTFS FILESYSTEM ON $MYHOMEDEVICE READ/WRITE!"
#break
umount "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"; mount -t captive-ntfs -o rw,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix,umask=002 "$MYHOMEDEVICE" "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"


2. edited /usr/sbin/rebuildfstab

added the following :
case "$fstype" in
ntfs) options="${options},rw,umask=000" ;;
swap) options="defaults" ;;
esac

case "$fstype" in
ntfs)
[ -n "$user" ] && options="$options,uid=$user"
[ -n "$group" ] && options="$options,gid=$group"
echo "$ADDEDBYKNOPPIX"
echo "$device $mountpoint captive-ntfs $options 0 0"
;;
esac

3. edited /usr/sbin/mkpersistenthome

and commented out
# mount | grep -q "$DIRECTORY.*ntfs" && { $DIALOG --cr-wrap --title "$TITLE1" --msgbox "$ERROR NTFS" 10 75; bailout; }

4. Installed captive-ntfs support in chroot envirnment

Finally when I boot the remastered CD, the captive-ntfs support is there. and am able to create persistenthome image on ntfs partition. But when rebooting, I get an error messages saying that /dev/hdax whiich is my ntfs partition, is already mounted.

What am I missing?

did you unmount the captive partition when you were done??

Quote:

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Originally Posted by nayr

did you unmount the captive partition when you were done??

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I followed the exact same procedure for captive-ntfs as it was for vfat in the script files.
Still while booting up I get an error message.

Here is a bigger portion of my knoppix-autoconfig:

if [ -n "$MYHOMEDIR" ]; then
if trymount "$MYHOMEDEVICE" "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"; then
[ -f "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT/knoppix.img" ] && MYHOMEDIR="$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT/knoppix.img"
while read device mountpoint fs relax; do
case "$mountpoint" in *$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT*)
case "$fs" in *[Nn][Tt][Ff][Ss]*)
# umount "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"; echo " ${RED}ERROR: WON'T MOUNT NTFS FILESYSTEM ON $MYHOMEDEVICE READ/WRITE!"
#break

# Note: This currently won't work with encrypted partitions
umount "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"; mount -t captive-ntfs -o rw,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix,umask=002 "$MYHOMEDEVICE" "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"
echo " ${RED}Mounting NTFS during autoconfig"
;;

*[Ff][Aa][Tt]*)
# Note: This currently won't work with encrypted partitions
umount "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"; mount -t vfat -o rw,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix,umask=002 "$MYHOMEDEVICE" "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"
if [ ! -f "$MYHOMEDIR" ]; then
echo " ${RED}WARNING: FAT32 is not a good filesystem option for /home/knoppix (missing socket/symlink support).${NORMAL}"
echo " ${RED}WARNING: Better use an ext2 loopback file on this device, and boot with home=$MYHOMEDEVICE/knoppix.img.${NORMAL}"
fi
;;
esac
if mount -o remount,rw "$MYHOMEMOUNTPOINT"; then
echo -n " ${GREEN}Mounting ${YELLOW}$MYHOMEDIR${GREEN} as ${YELLOW}/home/knoppix${GREEN}... "
if [ -f "$MYHOMEDIR" ]; then
# It's a loopback file, mount it over the /home/knoppix directory
trymount "$MYHOMEDIR" /home/knoppix
RC="$?"
[ "$RC" = "0" ] && ERROR="$(mount -o remount,rw /home/knoppix 2>&1)"
RC="$?"
else
# Do a --bind mount
ERROR="$(mount --bind "$MYHOMEDIR" /home/knoppix 2>&1)"
RC="$?"
fi
[ "$RC" = "0" ] && echo "${GREEN}/home/knoppix mounted OK.${NORMAL}" || { echo "${RED}FAILED."; echo "$ERROR${NORMAL}"; }
fi
break
;;
esac
done <<EOT
$(cat /proc/mounts)
EOT
fi
fi