Auto Mount Windows Drives on fedora 14 startup

[User101]

hi,

i am using fedora 14.
Each time i login i have to manually mount my windows drives.
Is there any script or system setting which will help me to auto mount my windows drive on startup.

Thanks
Satyajit

[Smoking Tux]

It's a bit dated, but I think it should help:
http://fedoraunity.org/solved/post-i...tfs-read-write

[Sergi pons]

Run from commmand line ' blkid ' as root, copy the UUID from the drive you want to mount.
Create folder on /mnt/windows
Add this line on /etc/fstab:
UUID=(copy here your the uuid) /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

(change ( /mnt/windows ) wich the name of the folder that you just created.)

[Dangermouse]

If you dont want to mess about changing files etc,, then there is a simple gui you can install to handle ntfs (windows) drives, the menu entry when installed will be under system>>Administration>>NTFs configuration tool

su -c 'yum -y install ntfs-config'

[Marbles 2011]

Thank you Sergi pions for the line to put in fstab to automount ntfs drives. For many years I had to do this on Ubuntu and Mint (yes, now I'm a convert) but ntfs-config solved that problem. However, I cannot get ntfs-config to work with Fedora. It shows on my launcher but will not open. No loss though. I am adept enough to edit my fstab file. The reason I haven't used Fedora in the past is because after the install I couldn't access my Ubuntu or Mint OS. I wanted something to fall back on if I couldn't configure Fedora KDE. I learned how to work around grub to recognize everything. So, now everything just works after my "customizing" thanks to the forums.

[glennzo]

Interesting. Thought I'd give it a try under Fedora 16. Disappointing results. Using the launcher under Activities > Applications I get an error dialog. From the command lline I get

PHP Code:

[glenn@fedora16 ~>$ su -c 'ntfs-config'
Password: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ntfs-config", line 102, in <module>
    main(args, opts)
  File "/usr/bin/ntfs-config", line 75, in main
    app = NtfsConfig()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/NtfsConfig/NtfsConfig.py", line 56, in __init__
    os.mkdir(HAL_CONFIG_DIR)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/hal/fdi/policy' 


No matter. I manually edit /etc/fstab anyhow. Just wanted to check out the utility.

[Marbles 2011]

Thanks for the quick reply. I just tried the same command you did and had the same results. If I remember correctly, I think we need hal installed. However, I also believe that i read on some posting that hal was no longer in the Fedora Repositories, thus the error line "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/hal/fdi/policy' "

[Mariusz W]

Originally Posted by Marbles 2011

Thanks for the quick reply. I just tried the same command you did and had the same results. If I remember correctly, I think we need hal installed. However, I also believe that i read on some posting that hal was no longer in the Fedora Repositories, thus the error line "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/hal/fdi/policy' "

Apparently, ntfs-config has not been updated to reflect the removal of HAL. The latter has been deprecated a long time ago, so it looks to me that ntfs-config stopped being maintained.

[Marbles 2011]

Thanks, Mariusz W. After a little poking around the System Settings, I see there is Removable Devices which allows auto-mounting any drive that is attached. This, I see, takes the place of ntfs-config. However, I am not afraid to go into fstab and change it there, I just have to find the proper commands, as I am not a programmer and only know basic usage of the terminal.

[yanglifu90]

Disks 3.4.1 allows one to configure mount options in GUI, you do not have to mess around with those commands now. Disks comes by default.
P.S. I have Fedora 17, but apparaently the website do not recognise it.