Will a new Ubuntu 8.04 install automatically see NTFS partitions?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 23:56 -0500, Young wrote:
> I don't really care at this point if they're shown on the desktop, but
> I agree it would be aesthetically nice if they weren't.

Start gconf-editor -> /apps/nautilus/desktop/ -> uncheck volumes_visible

> What I really want is for them to be available on startup so that the
> desktop background picture, which is stored on a shared NTFS
> partition, will appear, and Thunderbird will open with the shared
> profile on another NTFS partiton. All without me having to manually
> mount them.
> 
> Wasn't this supposed to be taken care of in 8.04?

AFAICT what was supposed to be taken care of was that NTFS volumes are
mounted when a user is logged in. Which is the case for me, YMMV. If
they are in Places but not mounted, I don't know what's different on
your machine.

I believe, though, that if you want them mounted on boot, without anyone
logged in, you will need to enter them in fstab if they are internal
drives (you didn't say). I the NTFS partitions are on external drives,
look into the usbmount package.