Dual boot, auto mount NTFS partition

[Colin Law]

Apologies if this is one of those questions that is continually being asked,
I have googled without finding the answer.

I have Ubuntu 8.10 installed dual boot with XP and all is well.  In Places I
see '58.5 GB Media' which is my NTFS partition and if I click that it mounts
the partition and I can access it with no problem.

I have a link on the desktop to a document in that partition and if I click
the link it successfully opens the document, provided I have previously
mounted the partition by selecting it in Places as described above.

The problem is that if I click the link without having accessed the
partition from the Places menu then it seems that the partition has not been
not mounted so the link fails.  Can I set something so that it will
automatically be mounted on boot?  I think I know how to mount a partition
by putting an entry in /etc/fstab, but I think that would not then be the
same mount as if I select it from Places, which would be confusing.

In addition if possible I would like to change the name to something more
meaningfull (from 58.5GB Media).

Many thanks for any help that can be offered.

Colin
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