GUI partition mounting

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On 3/2/06, Wei Jie <weijie90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> System->Administration->Disks->Partitions is a nice GUI tool for
> mounting windows partitions, but it should us this in fstab:
> ntfs nls-utf8,umask-0222    0  0


I agree

instead of what it currently uses.
> Also, all partitions should be automatically mounted for all users
> (READ-ONLY FOR NTFS) so that newbies will have an easier time switching
> from m$ to Ubuntu. SuSe 10.0 mounts them in /windows/C(or D or E, but
> the drive letters don't correspond with their windoze equivalents)


My disks were automatically mounted, however, the few disks I chose not to
mount automatically weren't easy to mount at a later date -I had to
create a mount

point, something a MS user will find _very_ unintuitive (A folder, for
a disk!?)

My suggestion would be keep the 'hdaX' way of naming them, but make sure
that
any disks not selected on install are still easy to mount.

Also, shouldn't  non-admin users be able to use this tool in a 'safe mode'
for just
mounting disks?

wj
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