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Dave
Asked: 2012-05-18 12:48:53 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. What is the best and most reliable method to mount a NTFS partition? [duplicate]

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Possible Duplicate:
How to automount NTFS partitions?

... and having full access on it plus auto mount option on Ubuntu startup?

Thanks, Dave

automount ntfs

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Add the disc to /etc/fstab. Your create a backup and can edit the file with these 2 lines:

    sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

    Example:

    This assumes sda3 is your ntfs partition and it should be mounted into /media/windows/

    /dev/sda3   /media/windows  ntfs    defaults    0   0

    So change sda3 to your partitionname and the windows directory name to something you like better. You can use fdisk to see what ntfs is named in Ubuntu:

    sudo fdisk -l
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  2. To mount the drives without having to reboot all you've to do is:

    sudo mount -a
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