The line in my /etc/fstab for my ntfs partition is: /dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ntfs ro,user,auto,umask=000 0 0 works fine. Regards, David <div>On 3/26/06, Chanchao <<a href="mailto:custom@freenet.de">custom@freenet.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In Dapper it seems by default any non-Linux drives don't get mounted automatically. I can get to it by starting 'Disks' from the Administration menu, then it appears in the /tmp folder, and I can do a 'browse' as well. However that browser then runs as root, which makes it a lot harder to drag and drop files. (Like you cant drag something to the desktop then) I would like to have all drives mounted automatically at startup. I edited the /etc/fstab files and added my drives. I included the 'user' option so that I can access the drives from my regular user account in gnome. This works for my FAT32 drives, but not for my main NTFS drive. (I know NTFS is read-only, but the normal user also can't read it even though the 'user' parameter is specified. Do I have to specify additional parameters, specific permissions perhaps? What's the best wat to go about this? I'd prefer total & easy access to all drives. Cheers, Chanchao -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>