Re: [SLUG] Auto-mounting another partition

From: draeath (draeath@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 19:29:40 EST


See also http://tinyurl.com/fqc8g

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 7:15 pm, Eben King wrote:
> 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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