[SOLVED] Access Partition

[sufyan]

I intalled vista followed by a fresh install of hardy. The dual boot works, I made three partitions; 1 for vista, 1 for hardy and I kept one for documents and videos so that I can access it from any operating system (NTFS).

I can access it from vista but am having problems with hardy.

Suggestions please.

[Nikitas350]

What problems do you have?

[sufyan]

It does not mount.

[Nikitas350]

Run sudo blkid in terminal and post the output here. Also post the fstab here (/etc/fstab).

[cdtech]

You could add to your /etc/fstab file:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

add:

UUID=1D8FD5F25AC0301F /media/Vista     ntfs    defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0       0

You can find your block id using, simply "blkid"

P.S.
Be sure you create the directory under /media to mount the NTFS partition (vista)

[sufyan]

/dev/sda1: UUID="7CFCE2E8FCE29BA0" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="a674adeb-c452-43a6-a597-380619f244df" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda3: UUID="6AC0EDBFC0ED919D" TYPE="ntfs"

and /ets/fstab is

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=a674adeb-c452-43a6-a597-380619f244df / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[RuleMaker]

The thing you should do is:
1) find that neutral partition in blkid and copy it's UUID
2) edit your fstab, add a line like this:
UUID=<UUID that you copied in first step> /media/Neutral ntfs-3g auto,users,uid=1000

(this will automatically mout that drive on system startup)

[sufyan]

It is working now. Thank you