On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Nitesh Mistry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, K Ramnarayan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Hi >> >> On my laptop there is ntfs partition (as below) >> /dev/sda2 normal mount point /media/SharedT6N - ntfs >> >> Trying to set it up to auto mount on boot up i inserted the following line >> in >> /etc/fstab >> >> UUID=21E3CD34484F8674 /media/SharedT6N fuseblk defaults 0 >> 2 > > are you sure the file system type should be 'fuseblk'? I think it should be > 'vfat' for ntfs drive > add 'auto' to the options along with 'defaults'. So the line may look like > this > > UUID=21E3CD34484F8674 /media/SharedT6N vfat auto,defaults 0 > 2 > > > >> >> i drew a part of this line from mtab (after mounting the said partition) >> >> But there was an error when i rebooted and tried to access this partition. >> Deleting this line from fstab brought it back to being able to mount. >> >> ANy advice on how to automount this partition on start up. >> >> ** >> The reason i want to auto mount is because beagle seems to not be able to >> search and index any partition unless it is available at start up. >> >> thanks and regards >> ram >> >> >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-in mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > > > -- > Nitesh > http://techformyself.blogspot.com > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GB/J/IT/O>TW d+(-) s+:+>: a- C+ UL>+++ P? L++>+++ E? W++ N? o? K? w--- O? > M-- V? PS+() PE(++)(-) Y+ PGP+ t 5? X- R tv+ b+ DI D G e+++>++++ h-- !r y? > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
You might need to specify the correct permissions and umask for it to work correctly for normal users. e.g. /dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs rw,defaults,user,gid=1000,umask=0222 -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
