From 57c475a0aed6762b85b1504ea449331d5a51ae2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: szaka <szaka>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:49:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Give more hints what the problem could be during mount

---
 src/ntfs-3g.c |  9 ++++++++-
 src/utils.c   | 12 ++++++++----
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ntfs-3g.c b/src/ntfs-3g.c
index b73c1971..b8e8073f 100644
--- a/src/ntfs-3g.c
+++ b/src/ntfs-3g.c
@@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ static const char *fuse26_kmod_msg =
 "         http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26\n"
 "\n";
 
+static const char *dev_fuse_msg =
+"HINT: You should be root, or make ntfs-3g setuid root, or load the FUSE\n"
+"      kernel module as root (modprobe fuse) and make sure /dev/fuse exist.\n";
+
 static const char *usage_msg = 
 "\n"
 "%s %s - Third Generation NTFS Driver\n"
@@ -2016,8 +2020,11 @@ static void create_dev_fuse(void)
 	struct stat st;
 	
 	if (stat("/dev/fuse", &st) && (errno == ENOENT)) {
-		if (mknod("/dev/fuse", S_IFCHR | 0666, makedev(10, 229)))
+		if (mknod("/dev/fuse", S_IFCHR | 0666, makedev(10, 229))) {
 			ntfs_log_perror("Failed to create /dev/fuse");
+			if (errno == EPERM)
+				ntfs_log_error(dev_fuse_msg);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index ae4cb568..d866b559 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -52,9 +52,13 @@ static const char *invalid_ntfs_msg =
 "partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?\n";
 
 static const char *corrupt_volume_msg =
-"NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!\n"
-"The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was\n"
-"made to NTFS by this software.\n";
+"NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a\n"
+"SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows\n"
+"then reboot into Windows TWICE. The usage of the /f parameter is very\n"
+"important! If you have SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first you must activate\n"
+"it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.\n"
+"/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation\n"
+"for the details.\n";
 
 static const char *hibernated_volume_msg =
 "The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows\n"
@@ -77,7 +81,7 @@ static const char *opened_volume_msg =
 
 static const char *fakeraid_msg =
 "You seem to have a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware and must use an activated,\n"
-"different device under /dev/mapper, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1)\n"
+"different device under /dev/mapper/, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1)\n"
 "to mount NTFS. Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for help.\n";
 
 static const char *dirty_volume_msg =