Help editing /ets/fstab

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Re: Help editing /ets/fstab

Post by rhodry »

inza wrote:Hi. I need some help editing fstab. I want my Windows 7 partiotion and my external harddrive to automount.

Some info:

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/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 vfat defaults 0 0


What should I do to make this work. Since i have no idea what tis stuff means I played around in pysdm to make my Windows partion mount and ended up getting it automountet while the external harddrive stopped automounting. Also note that Windows 7 uses two partitions one for the bootloader and one for the actual files (i think so atleast). The main Windows partition is /dev/sda2 . The external harddrive is /dev/sdb1 .

Thanks in advance.
Essentially, you should use ntfs-3g instead of ntfs as the file system type when mounting ntfs drives in Linux. The program is in the repos. Have a read of the 'man' page after install for more info.

Also, this link has some really good info on using ntfs in /etc/fstab in Ubuntu (from which Mint is derived):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009

Cheers,
Rhodry.
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proxima_centauri

Re: Help editing /ets/fstab

Post by proxima_centauri »

altair4 wrote:I had that question to and as always Fred had the answer:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=22073
Fred wrote:altair4,
In the later versions of Mint, ntfs-3g is called automatically when using ntfs mounting in fstab. ntfs-3g has improved tremendously in the past year or so. Very few problems are now popping up when reading and writing to ntfs partitions these days.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=22093
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