Auto mount ntfs drive when login your ubuntu

This post was written by admin on April 13, 2009
Posted Under: General

My ubuntu 8.10 was installed from winXP, and it doesn’t automatically mount ntfs drive,so I mount manually when a ntfs drive with something I need

Someone may have the same problem,and I will show you how to deal with it.

1.Open a terminal window and type

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

you need to remember location of the drive you want to auto-mount,and in my case it is /dev/sda6

2.Create a file as the mount point by typing

Code:

sudo mkdir /media/mpoint

3.Type following code in terminal window

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

you will be presented with the fstab file,it lists where to mount the drive

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4.At the end of the fstab file add following:

/dev/sda6      /media/mpoint ntfs-3g    default  0   0

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then save and close it.

Now you can test by typing:

Code:

sudo mount -a

Tips:

you can change the drive name by typing following code,and the drive must be unmount first

Code:

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

sudo ntfslabel /dev/sda6 jmk

restart,and you will see disk “jmk” on the desktop

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Tags: mount

Reader Comments

Thanks!!

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Written By Keano!! on July 25th, 2009 @ 12:35 pm

Worked perfect!! Although will not be easy to understand for the noob, this noob understood it after just a week of Ubuntu use.
Thanks a ton!!

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Written By Lenin D'Cruz on August 28th, 2009 @ 10:21 am

BEFORE “sudo gedit /etc/fstab”
You should create a backup!
$ sudo cp /etc/fstab fstab.bak
If you made a mistake editting, you can then use this backup by renaming it again.

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Written By Jake on July 9th, 2010 @ 11:59 am

Thanks for that explanation, that sure looks a lot easier than any other instruction set I have seen. I will try it and see what happens!

Thanx!

mark

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Written By Mark on August 13th, 2010 @ 7:05 am

Thanks for COmments

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Written By james on September 2nd, 2010 @ 12:36 am

Thanks a bunch. Took me about 2 minutes to make the changes and test it. I tried “defaults,rw” for options and used just “ntfs” for the type. Works perfect on my Maverick installation. I had forgotten to specify a mount point at install-time… I like this option een better because now a shortcut shows up on my desktop.

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Written By George on October 11th, 2010 @ 8:36 pm