Mounting with ntfs-3g

[Greg Helton]

The reasoning behind using UUID vs traditional device names is that an
UUID will not change for a partition (unless you reformat it) whereas a
device name can change if the drivers get loaded in different orders,
drives get moved around, etc :)

NoOp wrote:
> On 05/22/2007 08:56 AM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 05/22/2007 07:26 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> I have an ntfs partition  I want to mount at boot time.
>>>
>>> However, ntfs-3g, being a userspace filesystem, isn't available at boot time
>>> and I get an error message when from the mountall.sh script.
>>>
>>> Is this simply a matter of getting some modules into the initrd image, or is
>>> there another way to get a userspace filesystem to mount automatically
>>> (short of just creating another script at init level 2).
>> Edgy:
>> <http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy#How_to_mount_Windows_partitions_.28NTFS.29_on_boot-up.2C_and_allow_users_read_and_write_access>
>>
>> Feisty:
>> <http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_mount_Windows_partitions_.28NTFS.29_on_boot-up.2C_and_allow_users_read_and_write_access>
>> [note: ntfs-3g is now in the feisty univers repos]
>>
>>
> 
> Sorry, forgot to add the relevent bits from my fstab; note that his is
> from the edgy to feisty upgrade so it shows both the edgy config (hda1)
> and the new feisty config (UUID):
> 
> # Was: /dev/hda1     /media/windows     ntfs-3g
> auto,group=ntfs,umask=007       0       0
> # /dev/hda1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
> UUID=EE68xyz /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,local=en_US.utf8 0 0
> # /dev/<your partition> /media/<mount point> ntfs-3g
> defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
> 
> I've yet to figure out the reasoning for the UUID vs hda1...
> 
> 

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