Auto-mounting NTFS / Windows Partitions in Ubuntu is actually really easy. It’s great, for example, if you have a partition you share between Windows and Linux with files on.
Set NTFS/Windows Partitions To Auto-Mount
1. Go to Applications > Add/Remove
2. Search for 'NTFS Configuration Tool' (Firefox users can click: apt:ntfs-config )
3. Install it.
Config
Once installed make sure any drive you wish to Auto-mount is unmounted. Do this either my restarting Ubuntu and not mounting the drives, or by ejecting them via nautilus’ side-pane or the terminal.
1. Launch the 'NTFS Configuration Tool' from System > Administration > NTFS Configuration Tool.
2. In the NTFS Config. window, check the box next to the drive(s) you wish to automount.
3. Click Apply.
A new window will appear, however only check 'Enable Support For Internal Device.' This is all i have and i can both read and write to my partitions fine.
4 comments:
... This is so simple that I almost hate you for posting it? I've recently installed Kubuntu and for the life of me, could not understand why my D Drive (where I store everything because the C drive is so vulnerable) would unmount whenever I restarted. But I am sure that in the beginning (LOL) it would automount? I don't even know. ANYWAYS, tangent, I finally found this on the UB forums and it solved my problems. If only this post had come sooner! Still, if anything ever happens, now I have two points of reference, so thank you!
Haha! I'm glad it could help.
I used to spend ages manually editing my fstab so my shared partitions would automount and, well, i'd do something wrong or one day it'd stop working.
NTFS Configuration Editor (am i bored of typing out it's full name already?!) is a hidden gem that no-one seems to notice is there. I've often wondered if i was doing something wrong in using it as every tutorial relates to manually editing fstab... but nope! It works!
this is awesome. Why isn't this the default behavior?
sudo apt-get install disk-manager ;o)
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