Can't mount my ntfs partition

[Guest]

two things happened after installing kubuntu v6.06, first, after installing grub to the mbr, there was no option to boot my windows partition, I fixed that problem, then booted to the kde dektop, tried to mount my windows ntfs partition /dev/hda1 and received an error message.

could not mount device

"mount:can't find /dev/hda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"

this is my fstab how do I fix this please?

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs nouser,notail,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
<device> <mount\040point> ext2 users,noauto,loop,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosui d 0 0

[dalbjerg]

Re: Can't mount my ntfs partition

Kubuntu, should have make the disk avaible in /media.

If you go there just type

sudo mount /media/XXXX

[aysiu]

Re: Can't mount my ntfs partition

Try this:

sudo umount /dev/hda1
sudo mkdir /media/windows
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
kdesu kate /etc/fstab

Add this line:

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

Save and exit

sudo mount -a

[kubicle]

Re: Can't mount my ntfs partition

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

Adding the read-only (ro) option will add a tad more safety (preventing accidental write operations with sudo)

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs ro,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

[GBscientist]

Re: Can't mount my ntfs partition

aysiu, your instructions worked perfectly for me. I just had to swtich hda1 to sda1 because I'm using an SATA drive.