Automount is not auto mounting (not really?) [SOLVED]

[angrydog]

Hi there,

Just dual booted my laptop with Windows and Mint/Cinnamon. Looks great. However, I'm having a problem with mounting an internal drive.

I have two internal drives, one I use for data. It is NTFS. I'd like to be able to access this drive from both windows and Linux, which are installed on the other drive. For example, I have Thunderbird mail folders stored on the data drive, and have Thunderbird setup on both Windows and Linux, using the same message store.

I note that the Disk Utility provides my with GUI options for mounting drives. This is great. From the File Manager, the data drive mounts OK. I can see it, and access files that way.

For info, the drive is mounted at: "/media/user/D2 Data"

However, when I start up Linux and run Thunderbird, it can't see the data drive because it hasn't been mounted -- there's nothing under "/media/user" at that point. But if I run the File Manager, the drive is then mounted and then Thunderbird can see it, and suddenly it appears under "media".

I'm not an expert here, but I note that "/etc/fstab" does not appear to contain anything pertaining to my drive.

Any way to mount the drive without having to run the File Manager first?

Cheers

Andy

[altair4]

Yes indeedy,

[1] Do not use the Disks utility.

[2] Run the following command to find the correct UUID number for your NTFS partition:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null

[3] Create a mount point outside of /media/user:

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sudo mkdir /media/D2-Data

I have purposely avoided a space in the name.
[4] Edit fstab:

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gksu gedit /etc/fstab

[5] Add the following line at the end of fstab:

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UUID=DA9056C19056A3B3 /media/D2-Data ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=000,uid=1000,windows_names 0 0

Change the UUID in the line above to the one you found in step [2]
[6] If you currently have the partition mounted unmount it.

[7] Then run the following command to test for errors in fstab and if there are none mount the partition to it's new home:

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sudo mount -a

[angrydog]

Perfect. Well done!