Ubuntu keeps mounting my ntfs drives in the wrong directories

[RussianWizard]

Sometimes when I restart, my NTFS drives will mount in incorrect directories. It seems to only happen when I plug in USB devices such as flash drives, and keep them in when I boot. I have the fstab file configured correctly, but it still resorts to some odd default mounting points.

Edit suposedly the device name changes whenever I boot with a flash drive plugged in. Is there anyway to mount a disk to a dir without pointing to its changing device name.

[oz]

You could try persistent device naming as a possible fix.

Check this HowTo for instructions on setting it up:

How-to get your removable device mounted under an explicit and persistent name | Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks

[bigtomrodney]

There's a very quick way to resolve this, and that's using the volume id rather than the block device name. If you open a terminal you can run the blkid command to retrieve the id.

sudo blkid /dev/sda1

This will return a value such as wef23r2ef-234rwefwef-45htr45 or something similar. In your /etc/fstab you can put permanent entries in with this volume IDs to set permanent mount points.

Can we start off with you posting the contents of /etc/fstab and /etc/mstab with all of your devices plugged in?

[jmadero]

you can also change label names and then it'll mount in the same spot no matter what computer it's mounted on (Linux machine obviously). To do this:

Linux & Java tips: Changing partition label on Ubuntu