Mounting local drives

[Ray Parrish]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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> Ray Parrish wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I am having trouble setting up fstab to mount my local drives. Here is 
>> what I have bee trying so far.
>>
>> # /dev/sda1
>> UJID=AE3C279C3C275E99 /media/disk ntfs 
>> ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>> # /dev/sda5
>> UUID=01FDB079EDF37490 /media/Music ntfs 
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>> # /dev/sda8
>> UUID=4BC92DF718C72864 /media/Personal ntfs 
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>> #/dev/sda9
>> UUID=A0A8FF96A8FF6964 /media/Programs ntfs 
>> ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>> # /dev/sda7
>> UUID=AA84ABA1463F85C9 /media/Downloads ntfs 
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
>>
>> This results in a failed local file system mount, and an inability on my 
>> part to mount them with Nautilus, because it says I do not have the 
>> privileges to mount them.
>>
>> Can someone please enlighten me as to what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks, Ray Parrish
>>
>>     
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> 	Hi Ray, I always try to mount them manually first. It takes the form
> like this:
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> 	$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda7 /mnt
>
> if you get no error messages then look at /mnt and see if your Windows
> is there. If you get an error message, and I think you might, it should
> lead you to a fix. When it works try the fix in /etc/fstab.
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>
> 73 Karl
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Well, they get mounted in /media, not /nbt... The onl.y thing in /mnt is 
my swap file.

Later, Ray Parrish

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