Partition does not show up after editing fstab

Question

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 64bit and wanted to have auto-mount of partitions (NTFS) after boot up. I edited the /etc/fstab file and added the following line of code:

UUID=5CB5FBB62D2AA5D5 /partitions ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000    0   0

After this addition the partition with that UUID does not show up in nautilus left side navigation bar, instead all its contents are found in /partitions. How can I make the partition show up in nautilus?

Answer 1

Mountpoints for other partitions should be in /media

Make a new mountpoint for your NTFS partition:

mkdir /media/windows

or if not windows then whatever you prefer to call it

Now edit your fstab to correspond to that mountpoint:

UUID=5CB5FBB62D2AA5D5 /media/windows ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000    0   0

On reboot the partition will show up as a device in the left panel.

See fstab help for reference.

Answer 2

1. To create a mount point first, run "sudo mkdir /media/drive_name", in place of "drive_name", choose anything you like
2. Now in terminal run "sudo nano /etc/fstab"

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#/etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#Use 'blkid' 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>
#/ was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=3aea4570-4011-4247-9636-68317385324d /               ext4      errors=remount-ro 0       1
#swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=b8dbe189-e496-4241-9d78-082447c5f632 none            swap    sw                0       0
#media on /dev/sda7
UUID=03F2C97A5650DB67   /media/drive_name                 ntfs    rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,user 0       0

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3. In the above fstab file, “#media on /dev/sda7” has been manually added including the UUID (to see a partitions UUID run "sudo blkid /dev/sda*, *=partition_number") and for specific partition types, do the following, if your partition type is fat32 then replace ntfs with fat32 and it applies likewise for any other partition types. press cntl+x , on confirmation promt press y to save the edits, and then reboot and you will see your desired drive will be auto-mounted on the partition list, :)