[ubuntu-in] Need Help to auto mount ntfs partition

[Nitesh Mistry]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, K Ramnarayan <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> 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
>
>
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