auto mount problem and fstab
 

Hi I recently installed Fedora-9 in my SONY VAIO laptop. /etc/fstab content is as follows:

UUID=b15cf2a1-1ad8-447a-871b-8ceddcc6f59d / ext3 defaults 1 1
UUID=3df71cdc-42f0-4d87-bd0d-6c08737bd0c7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
UUID=acb66d68-9e75-446b-b6ce-ab4b024500e7 swap swap defaults 0 0

Here my problem is, I have two 'ntfs' drives. fedora detecting both drives as 'New Volume' but it is not able to mount at start up. Every time need to mount manually as a root user. In the same system I have windows XP, it detecting these two drives with D and E names.

Please suggest me how to rectify this problem.

Thanks in advance
Mogli

Have you already tried adding fstab entries for those partitions? If so, did it not work? In that case, please post the relevant entries. If you haven't already added entries, then do so..

You should be using ntfs-3g to mount ntfs partitions read write.


ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt/winstorage -o umask=0,nls=utf8


If that all works you can add it to your /etc/fstab file so it will automatically mount

/dev/sda2 /mnt/winstorage ntfs-3g umask=0,nls=utf8 0 0


man ntfs-3g for more information

This problem solved.

Thanks for helping.