Will a new Ubuntu 8.04 install automatically see NTFS partitions?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/6/3, Young <tuxman at knology.net>:
>
> I thought that 8.04 could handle NTFS partitions WITHOUT additional
> editing of fstab.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
> My NTFS partitions do not mount at boot/startup.
>
> The NTFS partitions show up in 'Places', and if selected in 'Places'
> will appear on the desktop and be available to other programs such as
> the file location for the desktop background photo and the shared
> Thunderbird profile.
>
> The NTFS partitions do not show up in etc/fstab.
>
> In previous versions the NTFS partitions were on the desktop at
> boot/startup.
>
> I just finally upgraded with the alternate install CD to 8.04 (waited
> for Foxmarks).
>
> What did I do wrong?  How do I fix it?
>
> TIA
>
>
> I don't really understand. Are the NTFS partitions mounted or not? You say
they show up in "Places", how can they do that if they are not mounted?

On thing that I noticed after upgrading to 8.04, is that NO hard drives at
all shows up on the desktop, and it doesn't seem to matter whether they are
NTFS or not, but I can reach everything from "Places", Nautilus, the
terminal etc. Actually I was very happy that they didn't show up on the
desktop, because I wasn't able to remove them from there with the previous
versions of Ubuntu, but I guess this is a matter of taste.

Johnny Rosenberg
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