Automount NTFS partition

[chris]

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 18:41 -0400, Douglas S. Saylor wrote:
> > On May 2011 Douglas S. Saylor <absdoug at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ntfs-config simply does not work in 11.04. Tried playing with my fstab
> > > file, but I after doing extensive research, I've learned just enough to
> > > get myself in trouble (thankfully, I backed-up fstab). I can make my
> > > ntfs partition disappear completely, but can't seem to get it to
> > > automount.
> 
> > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 09:52 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> > It works ok for me.  In /etc/fstab I have
> >      0
> > 
> > Use
> > sudo blkid
> > to get UUID for the partition.
> > 
> > Colin
> 
> Grrrr! Tried:
> UUID=(snip) /media/Windows XP ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0
> 
> ...wish I actually knew what I'm doing wrong! 
> 
> 
> 
> 

has the xp partition been chkdisked and closed properly ie not
hibernated?

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Cheers the kiwi