Comment 2 for bug 135370

> Why did /sbin/mount.ntfs look suspicious?
The output of 'mount -l' displayed the first partition with NTFS as the last
one mounted (see the result above). So I suspected /something/ with
mounting this type of filesystem (ext3 fs were mounted correctly). Other
than that I guessed. And since killing the mount.ntfs process cured my
situation, I called it 'suspicious'. That's all.

I also started Windows shortly before starting the installer, so this NTFS
volume was in a good shape, no chkdsk or fsck complaints, thank you.

> How long did you wait?
Several hours (around 5). I left the installer at the aforementioned message
and went away for a visit. After returning home it was still in the same place.
Trying to cancel the installation and restarting it rendered the
installer useless,
because it was complaining about the partitioner ending unexpectedly with
the error number 10. Talk about informative messages ;-)

I restarted the machine from LiveCD and started the installer again.
As expected,
it stopped in the same moment. Looking proactively, I guessed that something
was happening because of ntfs-3g being used by default (up to feisty this was
not the case) - just look at the provided mount list, you can easily see fusectl
filesystem mounted and winxp partition as fuseblk type instead of simple ntfs.

> Isn't it possible that it was importing (searching for and copying) files from
> the NTFS partition to the Linux one?
I don't think so. It displayed an empty list of other operating
systems and didn't
offer an option to import the settings. IIRC, when installing Feisty
it detected this
Windows XP install and the offer for importing settings was displayed correctly.
But I haven't used it anyway :-) I work a lot more often with Linux
than Windows,
so there wouldn't be aby serious profile information to import. ;-)

> Thanks.
Yup. Thanks for your time too.

Still being proactive I will install this version of Gutsy on another
machine, with
similar partitioning scheme (with WinXP on the first partition, separate /home
and several Linux systems as well). Then I'll let you know.