hard drive always dismounts

[rreyes3000]

I have an internal TB drive with all of my music on it. Everytime I open Amarok my music is nowhere to be found. However, for some reason, when I open the TB drive listed in the Places menu it is recognized by Amarok. This leads me to believe that I have to mount it permanently for Amarok. How do I do this? The TB drive is a separate drive from the one my OS is on. It is formated NTSF so that others on my home network can access--which BTW I have not set up for that purpose. All the other pc's are Windows based.

[dxqcanada]

What does your /etc/fstab look like ?
Is there an enty in there for the second drive ?

[rreyes3000]

I am going on to my 4th week of using linux--ubuntu has been my choice and have been having fun with it. Well . . . .let me just say, I have no Idea what your talking about How do I see /etc/fstab looks like? This drive has all my music and will also serve as the main storage for which all my other houshold PC's(Window XP/Vista) to access via a router. I sort of looked into it. I guess that will be a Samba question in another post (unless you can guide here as well).

Thanks in advance.

[Hal343]

Open a terminal and type:
cat /etc/fstab
Copy & paste to a reply here.

[devils casper]

Post the output of df -h command too.

cat /etc/fstab
df -h
sudo fdisk -l

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[rreyes3000]

Here is the Output. Also, I tried to open some file through some programs but the only way I was able to access them was under Places and selecting the hard drive--is this usual?

rreyes3000@rreyes3000-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=abf899d3-10f3-4a08-9bb6-90d07b3bc46c / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=9c308d1c-db23-43f5-bb6b-9ee8a04c5e4c /home ext4 relatime 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=2605692f-e08b-4cc3-a98c-ec5ffd331ae2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
rreyes3000@rreyes3000-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 9.9G 3.9G 5.6G 41% /
tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 994M 328K 994M 1% /var/run
varlock 994M 0 994M 0% /var/lock
udev 994M 196K 994M 1% /dev
tmpfs 994M 172K 994M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb5 120G 8.5G 105G 8% /home
/dev/sda1 932G 772G 161G 83% /media/TB
rreyes3000@rreyes3000-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

[devils casper]

Post the output of sudo fdisk -l command too.

[rreyes3000]

Still early. My dog made a mess in the house. What a morning.

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc6e77b89

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 150.0 GB, 150039945216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18241 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1307 10498446 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 1308 18241 136022355 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1308 17112 126953631 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 17721 18241 4184901 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcaf950ac

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 26 204800 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc2 26 12749 102195200 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc3 12749 24322 92957696 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

[devils casper]

Execute this

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add this line at the end of file :

/dev/sda1   /media/TB  ntfs-3g  defaults,umask=0  0  0

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file.

You won't have to mount partition manually on next reboot.

[rreyes3000]

Thanks. Will let you know if it works. Off to work now.

One more thing. Where can I learn all those commands? Whats a good site for the basics?

Thanks