Maxtor 1TB USB drive not automounting

[duncan_bayne]

Hi All,

I fear I must be missing something straightforward here, & would appreciate any advice. I have a Maxtor 1TB USB drive that I'd like to automount on startup. I have created a corresponding entry in /etc/fstab:


/dev/sdb1 /media/disk ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

This doesn't work; the drive is not mounted at boot. However if I open a terminal and enter:


sudo mount /media/disk

... then the drive mounts read-write, just as I hoped it would. So I'm stumped. I can't work out why it's happy to mount manually, but not automatically.

TIA for any suggestions ...

[celtic426]

Not sure if this will help in your case, but what I did to automount my external drives was download ntfs-3g (it's in the repositories) and set it to mount drives automatically by just opening it and clicking a check box.

[duncan_bayne]

Not sure if this will help in your case, but what I did to automount my external drives was download ntfs-3g (it's in the repositories) and set it to mount drives automatically by just opening it and clicking a check box.

Thanks - I tried using ntfs-config, but it couldn't even find /dev/sdb1.