Automatically mount NTFS drive when I login

Question

I use Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows7 dual boot with Ubuntu as my primary OS.

Every time I need to access a document I need to mount the respective drive, though this is not at all tiresome, still, is there any way that drives becomes automatically mounted when I login?

Answer 1

Go to the Startup Applications, by Clicking right-top corner Settings icon ---> Startup Applications.

The click on the Add button, Write a name for this operation such as "Mount ntfs drives", then in command input box, write this udisks --mount /dev/sda2, to automount the ntfs partition.

Note: You need to replace the /dev/sda2 with your actual NTFS partition number.

You can get this number by this command:

sudo blkid

Below is the output of this command in my computer.

/dev/sda1: UUID="89b18940-d5ff-4ce1-a85a-42cdd0369016" UUID_SUB="57d79ff6-7b53-44bc-82ec-ef783a23efc3" TYPE="btrfs" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Main" UUID="A80C1BD70C1B9F7E" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Work" UUID="01CCB271A80A07E0" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Free" UUID="CA9A-4F0A" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda6: LABEL="Ubuntu" UUID="364126ac-01c9-4dd2-ab19-eecc733a9640" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda7: LABEL="Free2" UUID="ed26eebb-524b-4533-869a-9dbd2b92bd64" TYPE="xfs" 
/dev/sda8: UUID="312d4cd9-21a9-4c0d-aa34-26230e70fa89" TYPE="swap" 

Answer 2

The udisks command does the same thing as nautilus

It comes installed by default and doesn't require any changes to your system files.

just add something like:

/usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/1313-F422

to your startup list.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions#udisks

Answer 3

I think simply you can add your partition configuration to /etc/fstab as well.

Basically get the partition name from command line either through sudo blkid or sudo fdisk -l SO add to your /etc/fstab with gksu gedit

The entry should look like this:

/dev/sd[ab]# /path_to/mount_point ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

where path to mount point may be something like /home/YourUserName/Windows. You may need to mkdir Windows. Then you can access windows partition in Windows folder inside your Home folder

Answer 4

You could do this directly with the mount command.

Edit /etc/rc.local. This gets executed at startup after boot as root:

gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local

and put the mount code inside:

mount_at="/media/OS"
partition="/dev/sda3"

if [ ! -d $mount_at ] #create mound directory if it doesn't exist
then
  mkdir $mount_at
fi

mount -t ntfs $partition $mount_at

where $mount_at is the folder where you want to mount to, and $partition is the name of the partition. My windows partition is at "/dev/sda3" and not "sda1" because I have a Dell with other small system partitions. To check what is the name of your windows partition do:

sudo fdisk -l

which for me gives

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048      206847      102400   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sda2   *      206848    30926847    15360000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3        30926848   540132512   254602832+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       540133374   625141759    42504193    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       540133376   619132927    39499776   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       619134976   625141759     3003392   82  Linux swap / Solaris

So /dve/sda3 is the largest NTFS partition, probably the one you want.

Answer 5

simple - method is to install the pysdm package (in Gutsy) and then use System-Administration-Storage Device Manager without any manual editing of the fstab file, and disregard most of the instructions that follow.

check this site for any doubts

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions

Answer 6

Here is a step-by-step guide to auto mount NTFS partition:

http://www.computerandyou.net/2011/05/how-to-mount-a-windows-partition-on-linux-automatically-on-each-start-up/