Mounting NTFS disks on boot?

1pudding1 · 3 Jul 2008 at 19:43

Hi, still getting to grips with Ubuntu and at the moment in order to play music from Amarok, I need to browse to my other hard disk (which then mounts it) which contains my music, before Amarok will see it.

I'd like both of my other hard disks I use in Windows to mount automatically when I boot up instead of me having to browse to them to mount them. Is there any way of doing this?

Thanks.

craptakular · 3 Jul 2008 at 19:54

have u installed the ntfs-3g driver?

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Type the above in terminal should do it. It then puts a link in you start menu : Administration on my linux Mint 5 distro

1pudding1 · 3 Jul 2008 at 20:06

What does that driver actually do? I have no problem with seeing the disks if i manually browse to them, as I think the act of doing that mounts them, so I dont think the drivers a problem. Will give it a go though.

craptakular · 3 Jul 2008 at 20:10

It adds read/write access to internal and external ntfs drives.

Should help with your setup. My music player rythmbox holds all my music in it upon boot.

bigredshark · 3 Jul 2008 at 20:15

you need to add it to fstab so it mounts at startup

1pudding1 · 3 Jul 2008 at 20:16

Oh right, so how do I do that? Is it very complicated? I have 2 hard disks I'd like to mount at startup.

.walls · 3 Jul 2008 at 20:23

Code:

man fstab

ntfs-3g will give you write access to them, however - the 2.6 kernel has in build read access to ntfs

sparkey196 · 6 Jul 2008 at 23:42

crucially, fstab is pronounced eff-stab. If you say FS-tab, people will think you're a right plonker.