Mounting local drives

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 13:58:48 UTC 2009


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Ray Parrish wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> Ray Parrish wrote:
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>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am having trouble setting up fstab to mount my local drives. Here is 
>>> what I have bee trying so far.
>>>
>>> # /dev/sda1
>>> UJID=AE3C279C3C275E99 /media/disk ntfs 
>>> ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>>> # /dev/sda5
>>> UUID=01FDB079EDF37490 /media/Music ntfs 
>>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>>> # /dev/sda8
>>> UUID=4BC92DF718C72864 /media/Personal ntfs 
>>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>>> #/dev/sda9
>>> UUID=A0A8FF96A8FF6964 /media/Programs ntfs 
>>> ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>>> # /dev/sda7
>>> UUID=AA84ABA1463F85C9 /media/Downloads ntfs 
>>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>>>
>>> This results in a failed local file system mount, and an inability on my 
>>> part to mount them with Nautilus, because it says I do not have the 
>>> privileges to mount them.
>>>
>>> Can someone please enlighten me as to what I am doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Ray Parrish
>>>
>>>     
>> 	Hi Ray, I always try to mount them manually first. It takes the form
>> like this:
>>
>> 	$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda7 /mnt
>>
>> if you get no error messages then look at /mnt and see if your Windows
>> is there. If you get an error message, and I think you might, it should
>> lead you to a fix. When it works try the fix in /etc/fstab.
>>
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>   
> Well, they get mounted in /media, not /nbt... The onl.y thing in /mnt is 
> my swap file.
> 
> Later, Ray Parrish
> 
	I have nothing in /mnt/ on all my computers. It is a directory to mount
something temporary. My swap partition is on the hard drive. What in the
world do you have a swap file for?


73 Karl


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