I installed pysdm through this article to auto-mount my ntfs
partitions.
My drive structure looks like this:
jatin@jatin-ubuntu:/media$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 18G 12G 5.5G 68% /
none 1.5G 344K 1.5G 1% /dev
none 1.5G 216K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.5G 92K 1.5G 1% /var/run
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda2 50G 50G 277M 100% /media/Jatin
/dev/sda3 49G 46G 2.9G 95% /media/Study
/dev/sda5 88G 83G 5.4G 94% /media/Fun
/dev/sda7 32G 32G 177M 100% /media/Masti
/home/jatin/.Private 18G 12G 5.5G 68% /home/jatin
/dev/sda1 59G 57G 2.4G 96% /media/Windows7
My pysdm
settings as mentioned in the above article are as follows:
The assistant options for the ntfs
drives are as follows:
The file system is mounted at boot time.
Mount file-system in only read-only mode.
I have two files: /etc/fstab
and /etc/fstab.BAK
with their contents as follows:
fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda8 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/Jatin ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/Study ntfs nls=iso8859-1,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/Fun ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/Masti ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,noauto,umask=000 0 0
and fstab.BAK
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda8 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/Jatin ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/Study ntfs nls=iso8859-1,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/Fun ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/Masti ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,noauto,umask=000 0 0
Initially, I had mistakenly created Silver Spoon
as the mount location for /dev/sda2
and it was not booting Ubuntu. Then I fixed the problems by changing the fstab
file contents by booting from a LiveCD and mounting the drive on /mnt/*
.
PROBLEMS NOW
When I look at the contents under
/media
, they are:jatin@jatin-ubuntu:~$ cd /media/
jatin@jatin-ubuntu:/media$ ls
Fun Jatin Masti sda2 sda3 sda5 sda7 sdc1 Silver Silver Spoon Study Windows7
With issues in all the directories in bold. When I open Silver or Silver Spoon, nothing shows up.
Some of my
ntfs
drives get auto-mounted in READ-ONLY Mode, while others get auto-mounted in correct(READ-WRITE) mode.When I try to open my external hard drive, it says only root can mount it and a user can't. I know this can be fixed by simply removing the line for
/dev/sdc1
from thefstab
file.
QUESTIONS
Are both these
fstab
andfstab.BAK
files important? Shouldn't just one be there?How can I get my system in it's previous state, before I installed
pysdm
?When should I uninstall
pysdm
, before editing thefstab
file or after?