Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. What is the best and most reliable method to mount a NTFS partition?

Question

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How to automount NTFS partitions?

... and having full access on it plus auto mount option on Ubuntu startup?

Thanks, Dave

Answer 1

Add the disc to /etc/fstab. Your create a backup and can edit the file with these 2 lines:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Example:

This assumes sda3 is your ntfs partition and it should be mounted into /media/windows/

/dev/sda3   /media/windows  ntfs    defaults    0   0

So change sda3 to your partitionname and the windows directory name to something you like better. You can use fdisk to see what ntfs is named in Ubuntu:

sudo fdisk -l

Answer 2

To mount the drives without having to reboot all you've to do is:

sudo mount -a