Automatically mounting (NTFS) drives in Ubuntu

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milomak said:
My guess is that wizard meant to use can't instead of can.

The point being that windows only mounts FAT and NTFS drives. And ext3 with the use of 3rd party software. Therefore to make the comparison, windows would actually have to mount other filetypes which are not MS based. So just like Windows mounts FAT/NTFS drives automatically, so too does Linux mount its related drives automatically.

In fact if you take the time to learn about the install process, you can even have Linux mount all partitions (including NTFS) automatically. But you have to be willing to learn and do the research. You are used to your Windows ways. We get it. However Linux is not Windows. You have to do things the Linux way. I have been using linux 95% of the time at home for the last 5 years. When a friend asks me to troubleshoot their Windows issues, I often have the same thought – damn Windows makes it difficult to fix things. The point being that if you continue to think of your Windows way of doing things when in Linux, your frustrations will continue to grow.
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Yeah, what can I say, I've been using Windows for almost 20 years now so I'm pretty entrenched in the way I expect things to work, which they do, without any obscure terminal commands and text file editing. I have enjoyed dabbling with linux but I don't see it serving any more purpose than a IT hobby, I think if I were to really get into it I'd try dive into it more seriously with a distribution that doesn't give you a candy-coated gui that in essence, tries to be Windows.

Each to their own I guess, thanks for convincing me to kill my Ubuntu partition.
 
Fudzy said:
I think if I were to really get into it I'd try dive into it more seriously with a distribution that doesn't give you a candy-coated gui that in essence, tries to be Windows.
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Nice rant :)

Get Gentoo if you want to get into the real nuts & bolts, lots of reading.
 
Fudzy said:
Yeah, what can I say, I've been using Windows for almost 20 years now so I'm pretty entrenched in the way I expect things to work, which they do, without any obscure terminal commands and text file editing. I have enjoyed dabbling with linux but I don't see it serving any more purpose than a IT hobby, I think if I were to really get into it I'd try dive into it more seriously with a distribution that doesn't give you a candy-coated gui that in essence, tries to be Windows.

Each to their own I guess, thanks for convincing me to kill my Ubuntu partition.
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LOL!

Is that meant to make Linux users all over the world feel bad?

A rant in response to a pretty neutral reply from milomak :eek:
 
sn3rd said:
LOL!

Is that meant to make Linux users all over the world feel bad?

A rant in response to a pretty neutral reply from milomak :eek:
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Hardly a rant, I'm just giving you my opinion, apologies if it came through a bit heated, I just really cant be arsed with with it anymore.
 
Just to add, if I was wanting a netbook I would certainly choose one of those cheaper models that use Linux, I've seen the remix and I think it suits the needs of the netbook perfectly.
 
Fudzy said:
Hardly a rant, I'm just giving you my opinion, apologies if it came through a bit heated, I just really cant be arsed with with it anymore.
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ntfs-config could have saved us all the drama.

it's there in the repos just look harder ;)

Edit:
it's also called "NTFS Configuration Tool" and has a 4 star rating.
 
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Agreed.

1)
Code: 
sudo aptitude install ntfs-config

2) Make sure the partition you want mounted automatically is unmounted.
3) Run ntfs-config from Applications -> System tools -> NTFS Configuration Tool
4) Check the box of the partition you want mounted automatically and give it a name
5) Apply or whatever
6) Done
 
Fudzy said:
http://flomertens.free.fr/ntfs-config/index.html

Is this ntfs-config? If so then its not what I was looking for.
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Fudzy said:
I have a number of NTFS partitions in my main workstation which is now running Ubuntu.

They are only mounted when I click on them, is there anyway to automate this so they automatically mounted when Ubuntu starts? I tried dragging them into the Startup Applications app (which worked for Skype etc) to no avail.

Whats the easiest way of doing this?
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How is this not what you wanted? You wanted something to EASILY make your partitions auto-mount at boot. ntfs-config does exactly this.
 
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