Mounting local drives

[Ray Parrish]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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> Ray Parrish wrote:
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>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>> Hello,
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>>>> I am having trouble setting up fstab to mount my local drives. Here is 
>>>> what I have bee trying so far.
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>>>> # /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
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>>>> 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
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>>> 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.
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>> Later, Ray Parrish
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> 	I have nothing in /mnt/ on all my computers. It is a directory to mount
> something temporary. My swap partition is on the hard drive. What in the
> world do you have a swap file for?
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I neglected to create a swap partition when installing, the swap file 
works just as well. 8-)

Later, Ray Parrish

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