Wow, you and I have almost exactly the same thing - music on a "My
Music" NTFS partition and everything.
I'm learning so much stuff about Linux so rapidly I'm starting to
forget things, but I remember having exactly the same problem. I can't
remember what the solution was, but "sda5" is a hardware-level address
that most programs don't like. You need to mount the drive. I mounted
it in /media/music. You'll have to create the directory (sudo mkdir
/media/music). Then sudo gedit /etc/fstab.
In my case, my NTFS drive is hdb, and the music partition is hdb2. So
I added the following line to fstab:
Code:
--------------------
/dev/hdb2 /media/music ntfs umask=222,utf8 0 0
--------------------
although this particular line was added by Feisty automatically on
upgrading. You probably have a similar line saying where your music
drive is mounted.
Now I just tell SlimServer that the music drive is at /media/music.
Since the drive is read-only, I'm putting new music in /home/Music and
I made a symlink to /media/music in there. Can't remember how to make
a symlink, I think it's a switch made to the ln command. Anyways,
works fine.
If you want to write to the ntfs drive, look into ntfs-3g. I couldn't
get it to work because Ubuntu thinks the drive was shutdown incorrectly
(could very well be, my Windows hardware failed under power). ntfs-3g
is installed by default in Feisty IIRC though. Search the Ubuntu
forums for mounting a drive using ntfs-3g. I seem to recall that all
you have to do is change "ntfs" to "ntfs-3g" in that fstab line, but
search the forums first, I'm a newbie myself and I don't want you to
wreck your fstab based on my faulty advice, I may have missed a
parameter or two!
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