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I'm unable to access my harddrive, I added the following line to /etc/fstab /dev/sdb2 /mnt/harddrive ntfs user,defaults 0 0 in terminal I ran fstab -a...
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    fstab troubles

    I'm unable to access my harddrive, I added the following line to /etc/fstab

    /dev/sdb2 /mnt/harddrive ntfs user,defaults 0 0

    in terminal I ran fstab -a

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    ntfs-3g is installed?
    (might be it is only to add write access too, not sure)

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    Shouldn't that be

    mount -a

    ??

    It may need to be run as root
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    sorry about that I did mean mount -a, I also have ntfs-3g installed.

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    solved it, changed "ntfs" to "ntfs-3g". Thanks for the help everyone!

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