2008/6/3, Young <<a href="mailto:tuxman@knology.net">tuxman@knology.net</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I thought that 8.04 could handle NTFS partitions WITHOUT additional editing of fstab. Am I wrong? My NTFS partitions do not mount at boot/startup. The NTFS partitions show up in 'Places', and if selected in 'Places' will appear on the desktop and be available to other programs such as the file location for the desktop background photo and the shared Thunderbird profile. The NTFS partitions do not show up in etc/fstab. In previous versions the NTFS partitions were on the desktop at boot/startup. I just finally upgraded with the alternate install CD to 8.04 (waited for Foxmarks). What did I do wrong? How do I fix it? TIA </blockquote>I don't really understand. Are the NTFS partitions mounted or not? You say they show up in "Places", how can they do that if they are not mounted? On thing that I noticed after upgrading to 8.04, is that NO hard drives at all shows up on the desktop, and it doesn't seem to matter whether they are NTFS or not, but I can reach everything from "Places", Nautilus, the terminal etc. Actually I was very happy that they didn't show up on the desktop, because I wasn't able to remove them from there with the previous versions of Ubuntu, but I guess this is a matter of taste. Johnny Rosenberg