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I've found out two ways to automount a NTFS partition on Ubuntu start up.

  1. File /etc/rc.local:

    mount -t ntfs /dev/sda8 /mnt/data/

  2. Or by fstab:

    UUID=1C02CB8502CB627E /media/data/ ntfs defaults 0 0
    • Is there any difference between them?
    • Is one more recommended than other? Which should I choose?
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off topic migrate to serverfault – MK. Apr 6 '12 at 15:10

migrated from stackoverflow.com Apr 6 '12 at 15:31

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Use the fstab; that is the standard place for automatically mounting volumes.

rc scripts are intended to be used for running generic startup commands and launching startup services.

As a side note, you don't have to use the UUID in the fstab if you really don't want to, it should work equally as well using /dev/sda8

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Thanks! :) Another question: the permissions and owner of the folder are autoset to drwxrwxrwx 1 root root. I've tried chown and chmod commands but I could not change it to drwxr-xr-x 1 victorhugo victorhugo. Do you know why it is happening? – Victor Hugo Apr 6 '12 at 15:27
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Have a look at some of the mounting options available to you en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab You can replace "defaults" with more customised options. But be wary, you are using an NTFS file system which doesn't use the standard unix permissions, so attempting to change them may not even make sense. Just make sure you have read and write access the file. – eltommo Apr 6 '12 at 15:49
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/dev/sda8 could change, the UUID is, at its name says, unique – Walter Tross Nov 14 '12 at 13:23

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