Automount NTFS partition

[Colin Law]

On 3 May 2011 23:41, Douglas S. Saylor <absdoug at gmail.com> 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

Is that a space in the mount point dir name?  If so the above will
interpret that as /media/Windows, the XP will be interpreted as the
next parameter.  Either change the folder name (here and the actual
folder of course) or find out how to allow spaces in mount point.

Colin