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mounting a partition as a folder on home diretory

i've got an unused partition which i'd like to mount as a folder

can someone give me a quick instruction on this?

it is a NTFS partition (empty) and i would like to have it permanently mounted as a diretory on home/user

i know i'd have to also edit fstab but clueless on what to add/edit on the file

thanks for any help

Okay, thats simple enough, you'll need to know the device name for your partition, then it should be something like this:

Code:

/dev/sda3 /home/mountpoint ntfs defaults 0 2

To get the device name, you want

Code:

fdisk -l

it should (hopefully) be obvious which is right, though you can try them all if you want ;)

To ensure you can mount ntfs, you want to:

Code:

grep ntfs /proc/filesystems

If nothing is returned, you don't have support. In which case, just install the driver ;)

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Originally Posted by jamescondron (Post 3560998)

Okay, thats simple enough, you'll need to know the device name for your partition, then it should be something like this:

Code:

/dev/sda3 /home/mountpoint ntfs defaults 0 2

this looks like the line for fstab correct?

i understand the first few portions of the line
/dev/sdax
/home/mountpoint
ntfs

which in my case is:
/dev/sda9
/home/manu/Download
ntfs - for filesystem type

but i don't get the 0 and 2 part? and what they apply to... are 0 and 2 standard? or it depends on the configurations of my drive?

fdisk -l reports this:

Code:

 sudo fdisk -l

[sudo] password for manu: 



Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00024aa9



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1  *          1        5099    40957686    7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda2            5100      77824  584163562+  f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/sda5            5100      17847  102398278+  7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda6          17848      17872      200781  83  Linux

/dev/sda7          17873      33680  126977728+  8e  Linux LVM

/dev/sda8          63111      77824  118190173+  7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda9          33681      63110  236396443+  7  HPFS/NTFS



Partition table entries are not in disk order

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamescondron (Post 3560998)

To ensure you can mount ntfs, you want to:

Code:

grep ntfs /proc/filesystems

what do you mean by this? is it to do with automatically mounting ntfs using fstab? at the moment i can mount it by just clicking on the drive... i have a few other ntfs partitions (obviously from above fdisk -l report)

Have you even tried to add this to fstab? There are generally instructions in there. From my fstab:

Code:

jc@jcmain:~$ cat /etc/fstab 

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# <file system> <mount point>  <type>  <options>      <dump>  <pass>

The man page is pretty good, too.

fdisk -l was merely to suss out which the partition was.

As I thought I'd made clear, that command, should it return nothing, means you have to download the driver for ntfs. If it returns anything, you don't have to do anything.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamescondron (Post 3561051)

Have you even tried to add this to fstab? There are generally instructions in there. From my fstab:

Code:

jc@jcmain:~$ cat /etc/fstab 

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# <file system> <mount point>  <type>  <options>      <dump>  <pass>

grep ntfs /proc/filesystems

returns nothing but i checked and i already have ntfs-3g installed

Since the directory is empty, why not reformat it using a native linux filesystem such as ext3?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jschiwal (Post 3561224)

Since the directory is empty, why not reformat it using a native linux filesystem such as ext3?

because i'm running dual boot... and i want to be able to access alot of the files that will be going into this partition!

sharing with windows, i think it's easiest to keep it at ntfs...

by the way here's my fstab file after adding two lines:

Code:

# /etc/fstab

# Created by anaconda on Sat May 23 14:34:07 2009

#

# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'

# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info

#

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                      ext3    defaults        1 1

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /home                  ext3    defaults        1 2

UUID=b41c7594-4029-45ac-b477-ddea259b6289 /boot                  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

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                  swap          defaults        0 0

/dev/sda8        /home/manu/Extras                ntfs        defaults        1 2

/dev/sda9        /home/manu/Download                ntfs        defaults        1 2

now i aligned my new line with above lines using tab - does that matter?

Tabs are fine in fstab

some kernel versions support only to read (not write) even after having installed ntfs-3g, i faced this experienced on some RHEL versions

Quote:

Originally Posted by kirukan (Post 3561252)

some kernel versions support only to read (not write) even after having installed ntfs-3g, i faced this experienced on some RHEL versions

have no problem with read/write into the partition :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by manuleka (Post 3561236)

because i'm running dual boot... and i want to be able to access alot of the files that will be going into this partition!

sharing with windows, i think it's easiest to keep it at ntfs...

Its easiest if the partition is formatted as FAT32 - almost 100% works w/o any need for loading special modules etc. Whats stopping you from formatting this partition as FAT32 - both Linux and Windows can happily read/write? I'm using such partition for my music files - can read/write from both OSs w/o any issues.

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Originally Posted by rikxik (Post 3561266)

aah never thought about that... too late already loaded my ntfs partition with 68GB data...

ntfs works fine for me tho - so far ;)