Hi everyone;

Not sure if this i the right forum, please let me know if I need to post elsewhere.

First, here are my system specs:

HP DV 2808
250 gig SATA drive
4 gig DDR
Nvidia 7150 mobile
Windows 7
Fedora 12

I have my HP DV2000 laptop configured to dual boot Win 7 and Fedora. What I would like to do is mount the Windows folders, (Documents, Music, etc.) automatically in my Fedora home folders.

I have done/tried the following:

1: identified my partitions:

[root@phoenix]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90909090

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 6375 51097600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 6375 26644 162816000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 26645 30401 30178102+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 * 26645 26670 204800 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 26670 30401 29972479+ 8e Linux LVM

2: created a mount point:

[bill@phoenix ~]$ mkdir /home/bill/D

3: edited /etc/fstab to include the following:

/dev/sda3 /home/bill/D ntfs defaults,noatime 0 0

4: made a soft link to the folder:

ln -s /home/bill/D/Libraries/Documents /home/bill/Documents

This works, however, it gives me a shortcut to the directory, instead of mounting all of the data in the folder, like I want.

When I try this way:

ln -s /home/bill/D/Libraries/Documents /home/bill

I get the following:

[root@phoenix ~]# ln -s /home/bill/D/Libraries/Documents /home/bill
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/bill/Documents': File exists

Any suggestions?

Thanks

zog

man mount (in particular the "-bind" option) should help here

What means "mounting all of the data in the folder"? and how's different of "giving a shortcut to the directory"?

The "file" _do_ exists. This second command has exactly the same result of the first one, it wants to create a "/home/bill/Documents" soft-link to "/home/bill/D/Libraries/Documents". But because you've already created that "/home/bill/Documents" symlink, the second command fails with "File exists" error

Hi Woodypecker,

Thanks for the tip, here is what I did:

1: Made a mount point in /media;

mkdir /media/d

2: edited my /etc/fstab with the following;

/dev/sda3 /media/d ntfs-3g rw,noatime,umask=0000 0 0

3: ran the following command;

mount --bind /media/d/Libraries/Documents /home/bill/Documents

This work perfectly!

Now my problem is I am trying to make the mount permanent, I have tried to do so with;

mount --make-unbindable /media/d/Libraries/Documents /home/bill/Documents

However, this is what I get as my output;

[root@phoenix ~]# mount --make-unbindable /media/d/Libraries/Documents /home/bill/Documents
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /media/d/Libraries/Documents,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

So I tried to make a startup script with the following;

#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 345 91 19
# description: mount NTFS on startup

case $1 in
*)

echo “Mounting Windows 7 NTFS Filesystem to /media/d”
mount --bind /media/d/Libraries/Documents /home/bill/Documents

esac
exit 0

and the did the following;

cp /opt/ntfs/mntntfs /etc/rc.d/init.d
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
chmod +x mntntfs
/sbin/chkconfig --add mntntfs

however, I got this error;

[root@phoenix init.d]# /sbin/chkconfig --add mntntfs
service mntntfs does not support chkconfig

Any suggestions?

Thanks

zog

btw, do you know how a can set this up so that the drive icon does not appear on my desktop?

thanks

Found my problem with the script, forgot to save it as a .sh, changed it from mntntfs to mntntfs.sh, work fine now.

Did a temporary fix by using Configuration Editor > Apps > Nautilus > Desktop > Volumes Visible, however, I would just like the "D drive" icon not to show, if I mount other volumes, I would like them to show up on the desktop. Any suggestions?

zog

Ok, did some more googling on the problem and found the following:

"Showing volumes (which is what the windows manager, calls them) is an 'all-or-nothing' proposition. Any partition mounted in /media will be displayed if the setting is enabled. You can hide the hard drives by moving the mount point to /mnt or some other folder. Partitions not mounted in /media won't be shown on the Desktop by default. They also will not be shown in Nautilus' Places, you will have to make a shortcut for them."

Made a new mount point in /mnt, edited my /etc/fstab to reflect this change and then the same for the script. Everything working perfectly now!

Thanks again to Woodypecker for the advice.

zog