HowTo: Automount NTFS Drives

[JPS77]

Dude thanks helping but that did not work
here is what it says

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda6 /media
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda6,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

presently just need files that are on the partition, actually i have kubuntu installed on it. Kubuntu now boots into BusyBox which i don't know how to use.
Now the partition dosent mount at all... i think it is because it wasnt unmounted properly...
Thanks for helping

[Joeb454]

Is the NTFS partition a Windows installation? If so, try booting into that, defrag & clean shutdown, see if that makes a difference.

Unfortunately, that's the only thing I can think of currently

[JPS77]

Joeb454,
That was an ext4 partition with kubuntu installed on it

[Joeb454]

What I meant was, what is the NTFS partition for? Is it simply a storage partition, or does the NTFS partition have Windows installed on it?

[JPS77]

hi,
I'm a newbie............. I can't understand what you're trying to tell me...
sorry

i started a thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1578257

i've put the bootscript out there...
i don't understand much of it but i think you sure will

thanks
JPS

[JPS77]

Thank God it worked

Thanks gusy 4 helping

[majedaly]

I've never had to do anything special to mount my NTFS partition. I just have a line in my fstab:

/dev/sda4       /windows        ntfs    defaults,umask=007,gid=46,noatime   0       0

Honestly, I like this solution better. Worked well for me without the need to install anything

[NITROCARIO]

In Ubuntu 10.10 the commands given are not supported:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install ntfs-config

So instead type these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

And the installed software will be available under the tabs System > Administration > NTFS Configuration Tool

Rest of the process goes as is stated above

[Joeb454]

Thanks. I updated the first post to reflect that. It's also worth noting that you could also run

sudo apt-get install aptitude

which would then make the initial post valid still

[rpete]

Hi, I've read through a lot of the posts above but can't automount. sudo fdisk -l shows sdb1, there is a directory for it in media/usb, I have the latest ntfs-3g application, and can't figure out how to see my external hard drive icon on the desktop and access the files in it. I am using an Acer Aspire One with 10.10 netbook remix OS. The drive is immediately mounted and pops up on the desktop on my other computer with 10.04.

Does anything look wrong with the output below?



richard@richard-AO532h:~$ sudo cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sdb1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=a4a5f639-e587-4300-8afb-4ea4e9ffc30a none swap sw 0 0