Accessing other partition from the command-line immediately on startup

Question

My other hard drive partition (i.e., the Windows partition) is located in /media/OS. However, I don't seem to be able to access it from the command line when my machine starts up in Ubuntu. I have to first open Nautilus and then click on the drive. Only then can I access the drive from the command line.

• What is a simple way to ensure that the partition is always accessible from the command-line?

I thought perhaps there might be some simple command that I could add to the list of "startup applications".

Answer 1

This is because your Windows partition is not mounted automatically when you started your Ubuntu. It is only mounted when you clicked on that drive in Nautilus. Trying this guide -> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions to mount your Windows partition during startup.

Answer 2

From commandline you can do

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdx1 /media/OS

instead of going to nautilus. Replace /dev/sdx1 with your the windows partition.

Easy setup of auto mounting NTFS partitions taken from Here:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
sudo ./ntfs-config

Answer 3

Edit /etc/fstab. If you not sure What to put there, mount it first in nautilus, and see output of mount command.