mounting NTFS and FAT32 drives on startup

[uperjer]

i know that the /etc/fstab file has to be amended to do this, but i'm not sure exactly what to put in it.

this is my drive information:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2040 16386268+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2041 4865 22691812+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 15988 128423578+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 15989 19457 27864742+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


i'd really like to mount hda1, hdb1, and hdb2 on startup. any help would be greatly appreciated.

[h4rdc0d3]

:) The FAT32 partition is easy because both Linux and Windows both can read and write it by default.

Try adding this to your /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb2 /media/fat vfat rw,auto,user 0 0
Of course, then you'll need to do:
mkdir /media/fat
mount -a

](*,) For your NTFS partitions, you'll going to have to at least use a kernel mod and I can't help you with that. Anyone else?

[crispingatiesa]

This should be enough:

http://ubuntuguide.org/#mountunmountntfs

[uperjer]

This should be enough:

http://ubuntuguide.org/#mountunmountntfs

i tried using that, but for some reason all of my drives (except the linux partition) came up as the fat32 drive. i really don't know what i'm doing wrong.

[crispingatiesa]

post your fstab here

[uperjer]

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /media/fat vfat rw,auto,user 0 0


i got the fat32 parition taken care of no problem. it's the ntfs drives i can't get mounted for some reason.

[Buffalo Soldier]

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /media/fat vfat rw,auto,user 0 0


i got the fat32 parition taken care of no problem. it's the ntfs drives i can't get mounted for some reason.
i can't see any ntfs entry in your fstab.

what's the output when you do sudo fdisk -l at the terminal?

[crispingatiesa]

sudo mkdir /media/windows

sudo mount /dev/hdb1 /media /windows/ -t ntfs -o umask=0222

if it works add

/dev/hdb1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0

to the fstab

if it doesn't work then we need to check if the NTFS library is loaded (I believe that kernel 2.6 and older have the NTFS library in it)

So do:

modprobe -l ntfs (is an L not an i)

If it shows somethng like this /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-k7/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko
then the module is loaded and I dont have a clue of what is going on

I think that kernels is higher or equal than 2.6 should have th elibraries in them

If it doesn't get the library, go to Synaptic and search NTFS and install the libraries (I think is libntfs5)

good luck

[Buffalo Soldier]

I'm assuming these are the NTFS partitions that you would like to mount:/dev/hda1 * 1 2040 16386268+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb1 * 1 15988 128423578+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

I think this is the steps that you should do.
Create Local mount folder /media/windows1 and /media/windows2.
sudo mkdir /media/windows1
sudo mkdir /media/windows2

Backup your fstab file.
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup

Open your fstab file.
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add these entries into your fstab:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/windows1 ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /media/windows2 ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /media/fat vfat rw,auto,user 0 0


p/s: Sorry for not reading your earlier post. You already post your fdisk -l. My bad and sorry for using gedit, just substitute the word gedit with what KDE default text editor is.

[uperjer]

I'm assuming these are the NTFS partitions that you would like to mount:

I think this is the steps that you should do.
Create Local mount folder /media/windows1 and /media/windows2.
sudo mkdir /media/windows1
sudo mkdir /media/windows2

Backup your fstab file.
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup

Open your fstab file.
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add these entries into your fstab:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/windows1 ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /media/windows2 ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /media/fat vfat rw,auto,user 0 0


p/s: Sorry for not reading your earlier post. You already post your fdisk -l. My bad and sorry for using gedit, just substitute the word gedit with what KDE default text editor is.


this worked PERFECTLY. thank you SO MUCH for your help!