Ubuntu 8.04: Automounting NTFS?

[Mr Jones]

Hi guys,

anyone have any idea how to automount a partition formatted NTFS on Ubuntu? I've basically got music on it and more often than not, I forget to mount that partition - just for easier access.

Thanks.

 

[dave-lew99]

Open Terminal
type: sudo nano /etc/fstab

Simply add the line to create a booting mount point, somthing like
/dev/disk /media/mountpoint ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Though you'd replace 'disk' with your device name and 'mountpoint' with the folder you want to mount into.

then do sudo mount -a to force a remount of all the disks and your drive should then be mounted.

 

[brummie]

isnt it just NTFS and not NTFS-3G

 

[dave-lew99]

Depends which driver you use, the ntfs-3g driver is enhanced (or so i'm led to believe)

 

[Ethics]

NTFS-3g is required for read AND WRITE from what i remember.

The standard NTFS driver does not support writing, the NTFS-3G Kernel module does.

Unless Ubuntu is referring to NTFS-3G with it's NTFS module

 

[Mr Jones]

Open Terminal
type: sudo nano /etc/fstab

Simply add the line to create a booting mount point, somthing like
/dev/disk /media/mountpoint ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Though you'd replace 'disk' with your device name and 'mountpoint' with the folder you want to mount into.

then do sudo mount -a to force a remount of all the disks and your drive should then be mounted.

Thank you very much!
It pretty much worked now - apart from when you said "disk name", mine was called "Media" but it kept saying it can't find such device - after much try and error, I used GParted to find my partition name "sda4", which worked!

Slow but surely getting there...
Thanks again

 

[brummie]

NTFS-3g is required for read AND WRITE from what i remember.

The standard NTFS driver does not support writing, the NTFS-3G Kernel module does.

Unless Ubuntu is referring to NTFS-3G with it's NTFS module

When i last did one it automagically had read and write with NTFS, perhaps it dont matter then