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