Auto Mount Windows Partitions in Ubuntu 10.10, 10.04 Lucid
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Loading ...While Ubuntu (10.10, 10.04, 9.10 etc) detects all windows partitions automatically on the boot, it doesn’t mount them automatically at the boot. You can have them automatically mounted at each boot by simply using ntfs-config. It is an easy to use GUI tool which adds the appropriate tags in /etc/fstab automatically and you don’t have to edit them manually. Here is how to use it. First install it by doing
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
Launch it from System > Administration > NTFS Configuration Tool, it would detect all your windows partitions you should see something like this
Select the partitions you want to be mounted automatically on reboots and click “OK”, once the tool is done applying making changes click on Cancel to access the next configuration window.
Choose Enable write support for internal device in the screen as shown above. NTFS configuration tool would automatically make the changes for it. When it is done applying the changes click on Close to exit the program. Now your /etc/fstab should have entires like these, depending on the partitions you chose:
#Entry for /dev/sdb1 : UUID=29CDFA1227AFD60B /media/Win7 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
Thats it, reboot and now your Windows partitions would be mounted automatically.
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It’s better not to mount windows drive automatically cuz if you don’t unmount properly, you may jeopardize your windows file index. I had problems regarding this and my PC kept restarting again and again. But after windows’ chkdsk ran and fixed the index, it was restored. So I wouldn’t do that automatically. Mount them only when you need them and don’t forget to unmount
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@Mahbub – I have been using auto mount for quite a while, and never had an issue like that, in fact all my media files are on NTFS partitions because it was earlier part of Windows based HTPC and since I switched completely to MythTV, I have been using the auto mount option for a while now without any issues. IMHO unclean mount can happen anytime even when you are mounting it manually.
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Tried to install the ntfs config tool twice. It does install and shows in system under administration but it just won’t start. I am stuck…
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lifehacker Reply:
September 1st, 2010 at 7:56 am
Try launching it from a terminal, use the following command
sudo ntfs-config
It would ask for your password and start, else it would throw some error, let me know what those errors are.
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ypatel@ubuntu:~$ sudo ntfs-config
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/ntfs-config”, line 102, in
main(args, opts)
File “/usr/bin/ntfs-config”, line 75, in main
app = NtfsConfig()
File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/NtfsConfig/NtfsConfig.py”, line 56, in __init__
os.mkdir(HAL_CONFIG_DIR)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/etc/hal/fdi/policy
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lifehacker Reply:
October 15th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
@youshi,
If ntfs-config is not working, you can manually enter information for your Windows partitions as given below in /etc/fstab file. Make sure that you have folders created for mounting content, and then replace the UUID data with that of your partition. You can get UUID data using Gparted
#Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=29CDFA1227AFD60B /media/Win7 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
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Hi
First of all thanks for these ubuntu hints and guides. I found your blog a while ago and these are very helpful. Now as for the reason I am leaving this comment I had the same problems with simbeb and youshi that ntfs-config not launching after install. I believe also the reason behind it is the same. I faced this issue yesterday on ubuntu 10.10 maverick (the stable release) and I guess simbeb and youshi were likely using ubuntu 10.10 (considering post date they might have been using 10.10 beta or smtg) I googled about it for a while and it turned out to be a bug on ubuntu 10.10 discussed on here.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ntfs-config/+bug/630348
http://www.osgui.com/forum/ubuntu/9547-1010-ntfs-config-bug.html
On launchpad MD Ashraful Alam says the reason and the solution to it. Here what he/she said:
“ntfs-config was previously dependent on libhal. They removed hal dependency from lucid. But the dependency residue is still in the maverick package. You can either install libhal or you can just make an empty directory as “/etc/hal/fdi/policy”. Then ntfs-config will work. well it worked for me.”
@lifehacker
It may be helpful if you add some info about this bug and solution to your guide for others that may face this problem too.
Thanks for writing and sharing these guides again.
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