On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, draeath wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 5:48 pm, Eben King wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Ron Messana wrote:
>>
>>> When I boot up into Ubuntu 8.10 I would like my system to auto-mount my
>>> Windows XP partition located on the same HDD. Is there a way I could do
>>> that?
>>
>> List it in /etc/fstab. Check the other entries for examples, but it seems
>> Ubuntu has a thing about using a partition's UUID, and unless you want to
>> obfuscate things, you can just use the device name.
> Note that you will need to specify the uid and gid. if you are the default
> ubuntu user, thats "uid=1000,gid=1000,users,rw". Also, i think your FS should
> be "ntfs-3g" instead of just ntfs. Full R/W support. You may also need to set
> default encoding, though i've never needed to.
What he said. I think "ntfs" is safely rw by now, but if you don't do the
"uid=xxx,gid=xxx" thing it'll be ro for everyone except root regardless.
If that's OK, great.
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