My windows partion won't mount on some boots :(

[suhas_sm]

It mounts sometimes, sometimes it doesn't ! what could be the problem ? i have tried mounting it manually but no success

could the following message be the problem ?

Summary:

SELinux is preventing the gdm-session-wor from using potentially mislabeled
files (/root).

Detailed Description:

SELinux has denied gdm-session-wor access to potentially mislabeled file(s)
(/root). This means that SELinux will not allow gdm-session-wor to use these
files. It is common for users to edit files in their home directory or tmp
directories and then move (mv) them to system directories. The problem is that
the files end up with the wrong file context which confined applications are not
allowed to access.

Allowing Access:

If you want gdm-session-wor to access this files, you need to relabel them using
restorecon -v '/root'. You might want to relabel the entire directory using
restorecon -R -v '/root'.

Additional Information:

Source Context system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0
Target Objects /root [ dir ]
Source gdm-session-wor
Source Path /usr/libexec/gdm-session-worker
Port <Unknown>
Host localhost
Source RPM Packages gdm-2.26.1-12.fc11
Target RPM Packages filesystem-2.4.21-1.fc11
Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.6.12-62.fc11
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
MLS Enabled True
Enforcing Mode Enforcing
Plugin Name home_tmp_bad_labels
Host Name localhost
Platform Linux localhost 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP
Tue Jul 7 21:02:57 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count 14
First Seen Sun 26 Jul 2009 03:17:12 PM IST
Last Seen Thu 30 Jul 2009 05:53:36 PM IST
Local ID b1ecd573-914b-4be9-8a16-2cc3d5835ddb
Line Numbers

Raw Audit Messages

node=localhost type=AVC msg=audit(1248956616.857:31): avc: denied { write } for pid=2996 comm="gdm-session-wor" name="root" dev=sda9 ino=374625 scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=dir

node=localhost type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1248956616.857:31): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=no exit=-13 a0=15c5c90 a1=c2 a2=180 a3=20 items=0 ppid=2956 pid=2996 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=2 comm="gdm-session-wor" exe="/usr/libexec/gdm-session-worker" subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

[PatMcLJr]

Hummm, maybe you could turn SELinux off and give it a few tries to see if that's the problem?
Or put it that promiscuous mode so it complains but doesn't prevent anything from working?

Did you try adding the partition to your fstab file?

Good Luck,
Pat Jr.

[suhas_sm]

how to add it manually ? i am new to linux. But it mounts all the drives on some occasions
they are ntfs partions.

[suhas_sm]

Didnt solve by putting SElinux in permissive mode

[suhas_sm]

i am able to mount using this command..
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /mnt/windows


how can i add this in fstab so that it auto mounts and show it on desktop as well ?

[suhas_sm]

problem solved ...

ntfs-config did the trick