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Regarding the problem of not beeing able to mount vfat USB drives anymore:

I created a topic ↗ in the Arch Linux and ↗ in the Artix Linux forum.

Regards!

$url target does not exist: Server not found.

DNS resolving fails: dig pmount.alioth.debian.org | grep '.' | grep -v '^;':

debian.org.     542 IN  SOA denis.debian.org. hostmaster.debian.org. 2023072430 1800 600 1814400 600

Regards!

@frankspace: I'm getting the same errors on my Arch.

@Lone_Wolf: ntfs-3g and dosfstools are installed. I'm trying to mount a fat32 fs, as is frankspace, because he wrote pmount -t vfat.

Did some further checking and it appears pmount doesn't work with the ntfs3 in-kernel module, only with ntfs-3g (which goes over fuse2) .

I haven't tried to apply the udev rukle mnetioned in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS#Known_issues

Does it make a diference if you install ntfs-3g ?

For clarity : dosfstools is installed ?

Thank you! However, it's actually a FAT32 stick, and I get the exact same error when I try to use pmount to mount a LUKS-encrypted drive (which is actually EXT4 inside the encryption). So anyway, I replaced exfat-utils with exfat progs, rebooted, and recompiled pmount in a chroot. That did fix the first two lines about FUSE, so this was obviously something I should have done anyway. However, it didn't otherwise fix anything else. I'm prepared to accept that the problem is with my box and not with pmount itself, but I truly have no clue where to continue the hunt. I appreciate the hint, though.

pmount can mount/unmount ntfs on usb stick fine here, your issue looks like it's fuse related.

Since 5.4 there is a native exfat kernel module, try removing exfat-utils. (you may want/need to install the exfatprogs package)

I have no problem compiling, but it seems the update to util-linux 2.39 broke pmount somehow. Unfortunately, as an Artix user, I'm not sure there's a whole lot I can do in the way of a bug report, either, and I have no clue how to go about fixing it. EDIT: I spoke too soon; pmount is definitely broken, but downgrading util-linux didn't help. I'm getting the following error when I try to use pmount now:

FUSE exfat 1.4.0 (libfuse2)
FUSE exfat 1.4.0 (libfuse2)
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

If I try to specify pmount -t vfat /dev/sda1, I just get told mount: /media/sda1: not mount point or bad option. Running the same with sudo gets the same thing. I'm stumped and don't even know where to begin.

I successfully built this package on aarch64.

But I had one problem with ./configure I don't quite understand. I started from a minimal Manjaro image and pamac said:

UNAME_MACHINE = aarch64
UNAME_RELEASE = 6.1.12-1-MANJARO-ARM
UNAME_SYSTEM  = Linux
UNAME_VERSION = #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 14 22:16:04 UTC 2023
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

I feel like this is actually my system missing a package that would give me "configure guess information", but I couldn't find that package, and every guide said it's an issue with ./configure and to contact package maintainers.

To build on my system, I had to change the ./configure line to:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-hal --with-cryptsetup-prog=/usr/bin/cryptsetup \
    --build=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

$url does not exist:

wget -O /dev/null http://pmount.alioth.debian.org/:

--2021-05-30 14:12:30--  http://pmount.alioth.debian.org/
Resolving pmount.alioth.debian.org (pmount.alioth.debian.org)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘pmount.alioth.debian.org’

Can you please update upstream URL?

Thanks for maintaining!

I gathered various patches from the internet https://github.com/MisterDA/pmount/tree/newmaster some time ago. This still requires a cleanup, in particular I want to keep the original translations which I didn't in my first patches. I've removed HAL, added support for new filesystems. The bash completion needs some fixing. pmount needs some testing. When I'm happy with it, I'll try reaching out to the original pmount maintainers, and see if we can get the patches in distros.