# How to mount partition when NTFS only **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** vmware\ **Created:** [July 25, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-mount-partition-when-ntfs-only/25079 "2017-07-25T12:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gilberto\_Valentin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gilberto\_Valentin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gilberto_Valentin)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-mount-partition-when-ntfs-only/25079/1 "2017-07-25T12:42:25Z")
Hello, I have a playbook that scans for hard drives and mounts them in order to do a backup of the data from those drives. I am able to scan for the drives just fine and I can also mount them (thanks to the Ansible IRC community). The only issue I am having is mounting ONLY when the partition is **fstype: ntfs**. As you can see below, when I run the **parted** module, I can see a key value of **fstype: ntfs**. ` ok: [localhost] =\> (item=sda) =\> { “changed”: false, “disk”: { “dev”: “/dev/sda”, “logical\_block”: 512, “model”: “VMware Virtual disk”, “physical\_block”: 512, “size”: 33554432.0, “table”: “msdos”, “unit”: “kib” }, “invocation”: { “module\_args”: { “align”: “optimal”, “device”: “/dev/sda”, “flags”: null, “label”: null, “name”: null, “number”: null, “part\_end”: “100%”, “part\_start”: “0%”, “part\_type”: “primary”, “state”: “info”, “unit”: “KiB” } }, “item”: “sda”, “partitions”: [ { “begin”: 1024.0, “end”: 308224.0, “flags”: [ “boot” ], “fstype”: “ntfs”, “num”: 1, “size”: 307200.0, “unit”: “kib” }, { “begin”: 308224.0, “end”: 33553408.0, “flags”: , “fstype”: “ntfs”, “num”: 2, “size”: 33245184.0, “unit”: “kib” } ], “script”: “unit ‘KiB’ print” } ` I use the setup module to scan for the devices and the parted module to see the fstype. Thinking about it further, I should probably just use the parted module to get me both since parted does provide both. Using **parted** alone without **setup** , how can I tell my mount task to just mount ONLY if the fstype is ntfs? Here is my current playbook: ` ---
**Author:** ![Gilberto\_Valentin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gilberto\_Valentin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gilberto_Valentin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-mount-partition-when-ntfs-only/25079/2 "2017-07-27T16:10:19Z")
Any suggestions? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-mount-partition-when-ntfs-only/25079/3 "2017-07-27T16:59:46Z")
You should check your with\_items: under "Check for hard drive devices" it's in practice empty. ---
**Author:** ![Gilberto\_Valentin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gilberto\_Valentin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gilberto_Valentin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-mount-partition-when-ntfs-only/25079/4 "2017-07-31T23:26:52Z")
Kai, Thanks for the response. Can you elaborate on what you by “it’s in practice empty”? From what I can tell, I am parted to then pull the key values for a list of drives. This doesn’t fully work based on what I am trying to do. In essence, I am looking for help to accomplish what I want and that would be filtering through partitions that are NTFS only. An example, if you have one, would be great. I am still lost on how to only list out and mount partitions that are NTFS only ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-mount-partition-when-ntfs-only/25079/5 "2017-08-01T00:09:00Z")
json\_query is a filter, for a filter to work it need content. When you only use a filter and not any content it's basically empty.    - name: Check for hard drive devices      parted: device=/dev/{{ item }}      register: driveFStype      with\_items: "{{ json\_query('\*.partitions.keys(@)') }}" Here you only have a filter in with\_items, no content at all. - name:    mount:      path: "/mnt/{{ item }}"      src: "/dev/{{ item }}"      fstype: ntfs      state: mounted    with\_items: "{{ ansible\_devices | json\_query('\*.partitions.keys(@)') }}" Here you have content in the form of the variable ansible\_device that's why this task work and the task above fails. ---
**Author:** ![Gilberto\_Valentin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gilberto\_Valentin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gilberto_Valentin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-mount-partition-when-ntfs-only/25079/6 "2017-08-01T02:15:01Z")
Yep, I get that…my point is I don’t know how to pull the **NTFS** partition info from the filter. It seems like a nested key pair value and I don’t know how to extract it for comparison ---
**Author:** ![Gilberto\_Valentin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gilberto\_Valentin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gilberto_Valentin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-mount-partition-when-ntfs-only/25079/7 "2017-08-01T17:48:45Z")
I got a bit further. I was able to add the following: ` tasks: - name: Install jmespath via pip if missing pip: name: jmespath - name: check for hard drive devices setup: filter: ansible\_devices tags: - test - name: get device info parted: device=/dev/{{ item.key }} unit=MiB register: results tags: - test ignore\_errors: yes with\_dict: “{{ ansible\_devices }}” - name: mount ntfs partitions mount: path: “/mnt/{{ item.item }}” src: “{{ item.disk.dev }}” fstype: ntfs when: “item.partitions | length \> 0 and item.partitions | selectattr(‘fstype’, ‘equalto’, ‘ntfs’) | list | length \> 0” with\_items: “{{ results.results }}” tags: - test ` However, I am getting the following errors: > PLAY [Backup customer data] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > TASK [Gathering Facts] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > ok: [localhost] > TASK [check for hard drive devices] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > ok: [localhost] > TASK [get device info] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > failed: [localhost] (item={‘key’: u’sr0’, ‘value’: {u’scheduler\_mode’: u’cfq’, u’sectorsize’: u’512’, u’vendor’: u’NECVMWar’, u’sectors’: u’2097151’, u’sas\_device\_handle’: None, u’sas\_address’: None, u’host’: u’IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)‘, u’rotational’: u’1’, u’removable’: u’1’, u’support\_discard’: u’0’, u’holders’: , u’partitions’: {}, u’model’: u’VMware IDE CDR10’, u’size’: u’1024.00 MB’}}) =\> {“err”: “Error: Error opening /dev/sr0: No medium found\n”, “failed”: true, “item”: {“key”: “sr0”, “value”: {“holders”: , “host”: “IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)”, “model”: “VMware IDE CDR10”, “partitions”: {}, “removable”: “1”, “rotational”: “1”, “sas\_address”: null, “sas\_device\_handle”: null, “scheduler\_mode”: “cfq”, “sectors”: “2097151”, “sectorsize”: “512”, “size”: “1024.00 MB”, “support\_discard”: “0”, “vendor”: “NECVMWar”}}, “msg”: “Error while getting device information with parted script: ‘/usr/sbin/parted -s -m /dev/sr0 – unit ‘MiB’ print’”, “out”: “”, “rc”: 1} > ok: [localhost] =\> (item={‘key’: u’sda’, ‘value’: {u’scheduler\_mode’: u’cfq’, u’sectorsize’: u’512’, u’vendor’: u’VMware’, u’sectors’: u’67108864’, u’sas\_device\_handle’: None, u’sas\_address’: None, u’host’: u’Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 01)‘, u’rotational’: u’1’, u’removable’: u’0’, u’support\_discard’: u’0’, u’holders’: , u’partitions’: {u’sda2’: {u’sectorsize’: 512, u’uuid’: u’A880A12480A0FA48’, u’sectors’: u’66490368’, u’start’: u’616448’, u’holders’: , u’size’: u’31.71 GB’}, u’sda1’: {u’sectorsize’: 512, u’uuid’: u’9844A05B44A03E3E’, u’sectors’: u’614400’, u’start’: u’2048’, u’holders’: , u’size’: u’300.00 MB’}}, u’model’: u’Virtual disk’, u’size’: u’32.00 GB’}}) > …ignoring > TASK [mount ntfs partitions] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! =\> {“failed”: true, “msg”: “The conditional check ‘item.partitions | length \> 0 and item.partitions | selectattr(‘fstype’, ‘equalto’, ‘ntfs’) | list | length \> 0’ failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (item.partitions | length \> 0 and item.partitions | selectattr(‘fstype’, ‘equalto’, ‘ntfs’) | list | length \> 0): ‘dict object’ has no attribute ‘partitions’\n\nThe error appears to have been in ‘/home/svcacctansible/automation/backup/customerBackup.yml’: line 35, column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: mount ntfs partitions\n ^ here\n”} > to retry, use: --limit @/home/svcacctansible/automation/backup/customerBackup.retry > PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 I’m only wanting to mount any partition that is **NTFS** ---
**Author:** ![Gilberto\_Valentin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gilberto\_Valentin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gilberto_Valentin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-mount-partition-when-ntfs-only/25079/8 "2017-08-01T23:29:01Z")
I was able to resolve this by redoing all of my tasks as follows: ` tasks: - name: Install jmespath via pip if missing pip: name: jmespath - name: run the setup module for some facts about the hardware setup: filter: ansible\_devices tags: - new - name: check what drives are available parted: device: /dev/{{ item }} with\_items: “{{ ansible\_devices }}” when: - item != ‘sr0’ register: result - name: get a list of paritions that are only ntfs debug: msg: “{{ item.0.disk.dev }}{{ (item.0.disk.table == ‘loop’) | ternary(‘’, item.1.num) }}” when: item.1.fstype == ‘ntfs’ with\_subelements: - “{{ result.results }}” - partitions - name: mount ntfs partitions mount: path: “/mnt/{{ item.0.disk.dev }}{{ (item.0.disk.table == ‘loop’) | ternary(‘’, item.1.num) }}” src: “{{ item.0.disk.dev }}{{ (item.0.disk.table == ‘loop’) | ternary(‘’, item.1.num) }}” fstype: ntfs state: mounted when: item.1.fstype == ‘ntfs’ # when: results.item.value.partitions.fstype == “ntfs” with\_subelements: - “{{ result.results }}” - partitions `