Re: Mounting NTFS

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 22:52 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
John Bowden wrote:

You might add something like 'ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/xp' to rc.local and
it should be ready to go when the computer is ready after boot. I do
this for 'yum -y update' on a computer that I setup for novice computer
users and it works for that situation. ntfs-3g should work from the
script also.

Jim
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I got that command to work after changing the "sda1" to hda1. I have
also added it to my rc.local file and did a reboot. I can now see my
ntfs partition. Now I can archive all the stuff in my "downloads"
directory and shrink the ntfs partition down to give my FC6 partition
more room.Thanks all for your help. Now to find out why my Psion wont
communicate with FC6



Also, some better advice was passed on regarding how to add the entry
within the /etc/fstab file and have it mounted as other partitions are
mounted. I did not read the documentation and was supposing that since
ntfs-3g was acting like a program to mount the filesystem instead of the
example giving a reference to an entry, it was outside a regular
mechanism to mount filesystems.
Adding the entry to rc.local is an option that I'd do and it works. It
is good to read up on more normal methods as included in the link below.
At least I learned from your question also that you can add the mount to
/etc/fstab.

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#usage


As below excerpt from link:

Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples. You
can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by adding the following
line to the end of the /etc/fstab file:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0


Jim


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I will leave the line in my rc.local file for now as it seems to be
working and I can free up some space on the ntfs partition. in a week or
two I will have a go at my fstab file. This install of FC6 was a look
and tinker install. I,m almost ready to start using FC6 for most of my
day to day pc use. There is only two things stopping me from dumping m$
permanently and they are:
1, Playing Command & Conquer Generals Zero hour!
2,the voip software only has a windoz version and I have 2 1/2 months of
credit left on it to go. Its one of the cheapest voip services around
that I have found so far. Free international land line phone calls. I
have a 250Gb hard drive in this box. About 80Gb for FC6 the rest for
windoz. I plan to shrink the ntfs partition down to about 20/30 Gb just
to run Generals on from time to time.


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