need help mount unmount NTFS drives
I am making great strides in understanding the file system / user system / permissions concepts here, after so many years in Microsoft world, but I am still thwarted. I have 3 Linux and Ubuntu books but none of them tell me how to do what I want in language that I can understand.
Somehow, I have fumbled around and gotten my 3 NTFS drives to mount automatically (one refuses to mount about 30% of the time) on boot-up, but without permissions to use them. I have an XP/10.04 dual-boot scenario with 3 large NTFS hard drives (single partition each) and another separate drive for Linux (in 3 partitions on an 80GB disk).
I need to clear them from the way I have them, and, for now, cause at least one of them ( /dev/sda1 -aka- C:\ ) to mount automatically on boot-up with full permission for me to read, create, delete, and write to it. I am the sole user of the computer.
I would prefer to mount it into /home but seem to understand that is a problem, and that it would be better to mount it into /media. Whatever. The others ( /dev/sdb1 -aka- D:\ and /dev/sdd1 -aka- E:\ ) are big collections of mostly pictures and music and are not critical for everyday use.
If the permissions are not possible, I need for it to let me log in a password to do that, instead of simply telling me that access is denied with no recourse.
Am I dense or is this something difficult?
Thank you very much for your patience.
Athlon 64x2 - 4GB ram - dual boot - Windows 7 + 12.04
I also use and/or maintain several other computers, some pure Ubuntu.
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