Auto Mounting NTFS directory in fstab

[Guest]

I've gone through a lot of pages (at least 25) now and was stuck with error messages saying

mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfS-3g'

So here is what I've done to correct the issue and it works. Please let me know if I am making any big mistake here. I've added the following line to my fstab and it works.

/dev/sda1 /media/WinNTFS ntfs-3g user,default 0 0

I've used "fdisk -l" to see where my NTFS or Windows XP partition was loaded. My NTFS partition was on /dev/sda1. I have created a folder "WinNTFS" under "/media" directory and is used to mount the partition.

[lmilano]

Re: Auto Mounting NTFS directory in fstab

Hi,

It looks good to me. You need to have ntfs-3g installed, but I am sure you do, since it is working.

Good work! Please add [SOLVED] to the title of the first post, so other users can benefit!

[digitalhead]

Re: Auto Mounting NTFS directory in fstab

If specifying the partition format as ntfs-3g fails, something that I have found to work well is to use "auto" instead. That's what I had to do with an external NTFS drive on my media center.