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12.28.2005: This page needs review and clean up, be careful while implementing steps!

Introduction

This page describes how to automatically mount an MS Windows partition in Linux on boot. It is written for NTFS only because

• • Linux does not support writing to an NTFS partition yet
  • Most newcomers use NTFS as the basis of their dual booting Windows'ed computers.

<!> Please note that you will need to use the terminal and commands to do the steps. Using the command line (CLI) is a nice way to learn linux, at least if you have time and will. I will try to be as descriptive as possible... For more information on the command line see:

• • Self:BasicCommands
  • Self:AdvancedCommandlineHowto

<!> You can also find a script for this at : Self:AutomaticallyMountMSWindowsPartitions

Mounting an NTFS partition

Where is the partition?

Use the output of this command to learn where your NTFS partition is

 
sudo fdisk -l

/!\ Please be careful as fdisk is a dangerous tool

In the following example, /dev/hda2 is an NTFS partition:

/dev/hda2 2612 6527 31455270 7 HPFS/NTFS

Prepare the Mount Directory and fstab entry

Once you locate your NTFS partition:

sudo mkdir /mnt/ntfs1 

this will create a new directory called ntfs1 (1 is number one) under /mnt (the standard directory for mounting filesystems). then:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup1

this will back up your fstab (a configuration file Linux uses to mount filesystems on boot) as fstab_backup1 (1 is number one). then:

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

this will open the fstab file.

Goto the end of the file, copy paste this as one line:

/dev/hda2 /mnt/ntfs1 ntfs ro,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

and change /dev/hda2 with your own ntfs partition. Save and close the file.

About fstab backup

If you need to recover your backup file, use:

sudo rm /etc/fstab
sudo cp /etc/fstab_backup1 /etc/fstab

Mounting

Finish the process with:

sudo mount -a

which will mount every unmounted entry in the fstab. You can check which partitions are mounted after this with:

mount

which will give you a list of mounted filesystem.

After following these steps, if mount -a mounted your ntfs partition, it will automatically be mounted on every boot.

Writing to NTFS

Your ntfs partition is under /mnt/ntfs1 but it can only be read-only (i.e. you will not be able to change anything in it) because linux does not support writing to this filesystem (except experimentally, which means dangerous). But Linux can write to FAT32, so you can use a flash drive or similar (a FAT32 formatted partition) as an intermediary between Linux and MS Windows.

Go for help

If something goes wrong, go for help at http://ubuntuforums.org. Please post exactly what you did (copy-paste) and the errors along with the output of:

sudo fdisk -l 
cat /etc/fstab 
mount | sort

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