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]

Originally Posted by crispingatiesa 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.