Some times my drives donot get mounted .

[srikar]

Sometimes my drives dont get mounted. Why is this happening??

my fstab file:-

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc      /proc      proc  defaults    0    0
# /dev/sda8
UUID=76118d98-f26f-4d2b-965c-c3a7c9c73cd0 /        ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro 0    1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=C8FC2B49FC2B315C /media/sda1   ntfs  defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0    0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=7AC06F44C06F05AB /media/sda5   ntfs  defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0    1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=FCF079FCF079BE08 /media/sda6   ntfs  defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0    1
# /dev/sda7
UUID=a6888c26-d936-4af0-b0d2-b2e5e30b1bd9 none      swap  sw       0    0
/dev/hdd    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0    0
/dev/fd0    /media/floppy0 auto  rw,user,noauto,exec 0    0

[mzalfres]

Re: Some times my drives donot get mounted .

Try with 'auto' in options, eg.

UUID=7AC06F44C06F05AB /media/sda5 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46,auto 0 1

Mount point will be mounted with 'mount -a' command usually run at the very beginning stage of system boot. If you add also 'user' option, you'll be allowed to mount this disk manually with
mount /media/sda5 from 'normal' user login without doing 'sudo'.

[integr8e]

Re: Some times my drives donot get mounted .

If that doesn't work, make sure you have the "fuse" and "ntfs-3g" packages installed; then, change the "ntfs" type to "ntfs-3g"; that's what I had to do.

Basically, the entries would look something like the following:

UUID=C8FC2B49FC2B315C /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0