what is mounting windows 7 file system

Question

Something is mounting my windows 7 disk on /media/jim/0236A16836A15E03 and I can't find out what is doing it.

I installed a thing named nautilus which I found referenced in another questions answer.
I can't find 'nautilus either'.

I want to mount my windows disk from .bashrc on something easier to remember but how do I know what device it is on?

LittleByBlue · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-12 21:22:23Z

Your partition with windows7 is mounted by automount.

This is usual. Because your partition seems to have no label it is mounted under a mountpoint with his UUID name.

Now you have two ways to fix this

you can set the partition name using gparted, which happens to bee a GUI partition manager.

You can install it using sudo apt-get install gparted.

Then you locate your windows7 disk and right-click on it, the you select the option label and enter your favourite name like windowsData.

If you just want it to a specific place like ~/windows you may use the file /etc/fstab

insert a line like this:

UUID=<your UUID>      /home/<you>/mountpoint  auto user,rw,nodev 0  0

using sudo nano /etc/fstab or sudo vim /etc/fstab or sudo gedit /etc/fstab

The the partition will be mounted automatically at every boot.

by the way:

The 'thing' nautilus is a filemanager. He is not really the part for mounting partitions.

Thanks. I used fstab with the "LABEL=" option. The man page for fstab does not have an entry for type=auto nor for the options rw and nodev. Do you know where I can find that information? — jim murray, Jan 13, 2015 at 14:12
Err, currently I do not know from where this comes. I am just using it since I am using fstab. Maybe these options should get documentated in the man system. I know that this is working, because I just copied it out of my fstab. — LittleByBlue, Jan 13, 2015 at 19:15

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