How to mount partition at startup? (Solved)

[markcynt]

I've managed to do this in Mandriva KDE (really simple) and openSUSE KDE (not as simple) but Gloria (Gnome) seems to be different.

The partition is a backup NTFS partition. I tried editing fstab but I'm missing something. How can I make this happen?

Here's my fstab. It's the last entry I put in, (/dev/sdb2).

Edit: Right now I can't even mount it manually. I get a You are not privileged to mount error.

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# / was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=8d3e92e7-cf13-47df-985d-3738036ce02c /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sda10 during installation
UUID=6f89dfba-8b5f-48be-a900-9f6e71995f1d /home           ext3    relatime        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=e14010b9-cf8e-45f6-8c19-bd7ef28fa36f none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
# Entry for /dev/sdb2 :
UUID=1F4D93145B084DAB /media/Backup ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 

[newW2]

I believe you are missing some mount options in the "Options" field on fstab. For example:

Description Accessible by everyone Accessible by a subset of users
NTFS partition ro,auto,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 ro,user,auto,fmask=0177,dmask=0077,uid=1000

See the source url for more:
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autom ... Partitions

[markcynt]

I've been playing with this for a while now. I think I need more help/explanation than that.

[Fred]

markcynt,

Look at the below post. It should have the info you need. If you have questions post back.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=22093

Fred

[markcynt]

Thanks Fred, I finally did get it to mount but I need to change the permissions so I can do what I want with the files.

Here's the entry that makes it mount.

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# Entry for /dev/sdb2 :
UUID=1F4D93145B084DAB /media/windows ntfs-3g ro,auto,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0 

Do I change ro to r,w,e? I want the whole kitnkaboodle.

[Fred]

markcynt,

Use the fstab line I have below:

UUID=1F4D93145B084DAB /media/windows ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0

or

/dev/sdb2 /media/windows ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0

If you still have problems accessing it, in a terminal type:

sudo chown -R mark:mark /media/windows

and then set your permissions:

sudo chmod 666 /media/windows

Fred

[markcynt]

I did everything you said. Let explain in more detail what I'm trying to do.

I have a Windows XP virtual disk in the partition that I'd like to have VB point to and use.

The partition mounts, but when I try to start XP in VB it says the image is read only. Same thing happens when trying to make it executable in sudo nautilus. Nautilus says it's a read only file system.

[markcynt]

I got it working. After I did everything you said to do I went into sudo nautilus, right-clicked on the windows folder and under Others>File access>, I changed it to Read and write.

Now the partition automounts and I can do what I want with the contents.

Thanks Fred and newW2 for the replies.

[Fred]

markcynt,

Sorry I took so long, got a phone call.

Glad you got it working.

Fred