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I've followed the Ubuntu wiki article on mounting a Windows HD and it works. (very useful for moving files and playing music directly off my windows HD) However, I have ...
- 08-09-2005 #1Just Joined!
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Automounting a windows HD in ubuntu?
I've followed the Ubuntu wiki article on mounting a Windows HD and it works. (very useful for moving files and playing music directly off my windows HD) However, I have to mount the hd using a command "sudo mount /dev/sda1" every time I boot into Ubuntu or it won't let me use the HD. How can I get this to work automatically?
Also, I can read files on my Windows hd fine and copy them to my Linux HD, but I can't write to my Windows HD. How can I fix this? Thanks!
- 08-09-2005 #2Linux Enthusiast
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http://ubuntuguide.org/#automountntfs
If it's NTFS (which most Windows XP/2000/NT installations are), you won't be able to write. It's read-only. So I created a separate FAT32 partition to share files between Windows and Linux. If you do that....
http://ubuntuguide.org/#automountfat
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Open /etc/fstab in your favorite editor with root privlidges.
Enter a line like this, depending on filesystem, device name, etc.
Code:/dev/hda6 /media/shared vfat umask=000 0 0
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