HowTo: Automount NTFS Drives

[Joeb454]

Ok, I decided to write this - because over the last week or 2 I've been seeing a lot of threads asking how to AutoMount drives in Ubuntu. Most of the time these also happen to be NTFS drives

I know what it's like - I still dual boot too So anyway - here's how to do it the nice easy way

NB: Please note that there are some images attached just for you

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Fire up a terminal, to do this click Applications > Accessories > Terminal
Then type (or copy/paste) the following - 1 line at a time

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install ntfs-config

Ubuntu 10.10 doesn't come with aptitude installed, so simply run these 2 commands in place of those above.

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

Ok so when that returns you to user@pcname, that should be it installed

Next, make sure you have NO drives mounted (they'll usually appear on your desktop). And then run the program from Applications > System Tools

Note: In Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and later it appears that the configuration tool has moved to System > Administration.

Enter your password when prompted - and then choose the drives that you want to be automounted. Click Apply.

Now simply make sure that "Enable Write Support for Internal Drives" and click OK.

Enjoy your automounted NTFS Drives

Note: If you want to undo this for whatever reason, StolenPie posted a walkthrough later in the thread So kudos for that!

[lecter255]

how about a FAT32 usb stick?

[Joeb454]

I'm not sure about that, though I do know that it allows you to do this for External Drives.

Also why would you want to auto-mount a USB Drive?

[lecter255]

well the problem is i can't mount it at all. that's why i started this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=784970

in fact, i still can't mount external hard drives or my usb key even using ntfs-conf. I can only mount partitions from my internal hard drive on my laptop.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

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

[lecter255]

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

but can you mount external drives though? i can mount NTFS partitions in my internal hard drive too, no problem, but I can't use my usb key or external hard drive.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

I don't have any external drives in my apartment right now, but shouldn't it be essentially the same? Or do they not show up in /dev?

[lecter255]

they show up in /dev but when i try to mount it it always gives an error saying wrong mount point or bad mount point or something.

[Rixii]

Thank you for this post but I am still having problems. With NTFS Config, it goes straight to the third thumbnail, I never see the second. (Using 7.10) Also, I can only select the external option (it's checked), but that should be what I need right? I'm trying to mount an external drive...

I had it removed properly from XP, and it shows up fine there. It doesn't appear to mount in Ubuntu but when I use the Sys Info tool it does show up. And in GPartition, it says it's unallocated?

It's a 250 GB Seagate drive, but it is almost full.. That wouldn't be a problem would it? I asked in the hardware forums last week but received no replies, can anyone help?

[Joeb454]

Hmm, I've not got an external NTFS drive I can try this with, though I know it shouldn't be mounted before running NTFS config is run (could be an issue/bug with external drives).

If the drives NTFS Config finds that can be mounted are already mounted - it will skip the first screen