How to mount Windows NTFS harddrive in Ubuntu?

rpowersau at gmail.com rpowersau at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 01:42:28 UTC 2005


On 8/17/05, Albin Blaschka <albin.blaschka at sbg.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> J.Markoll schrieb:
> >>> Slabber A <14565471 at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> This is what i did: sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows
> >
> > You should create a (windows) directory under /mnt
> > and mount with the '-t' option I think. Below, and extract from
> > 'man mount', so you might get more info from the man (by writing 'man
> > mount' in the terminal)
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I did not get the full thread, but I guess it is the same problem I got
> in the beginning and some others had on this list, too ;-)
> 
> the command is:
> 
> sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /media/windows -o umask=0000
> 
> The key is the -o Option: it tells that every usery user has all rights.
> But don't panic ;-) You can't write to ntfs, so erasing is not possible,
> and in general I think you will be alone on your desktop, so that
> anybody will read possible sensible data is not that big, I think...


Why wouldn't you just put the mount point in /etc/fstab so you don't have to 
remember that command line and all the params? Just 'mount /media/windows'. 
Or make it auto and you don't have to use the command line at all?

Or is that just too easy? ;-)


:-)
> 
> Albin
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Regards,
Russ
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