ubuntu and ntfs

alafairnadia

hey all,

I'm trying to mount an ntfs drive on ubuntu (latest version) on a dell latitude d620. I can't figure out the usb location of the drive so I can manually mount it (god hates me) - I'm looking at /etc/fstab and want to stab it. any ideas? google isn't helping me - a lot of the tips are about older versions of ubuntu.

thanks.

jeffrey

/dev/sdb1 ?

As in...enter the following in a command line terminal window:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/hd-ntfs -o force

If that works, if it mounts the drive, then add the following row to your /etc/fstab so it will mount automagically from here forward:

/dev/sdb1 /media/hd-ntfs ntfs-3g defaults,force 0

(and save and exit the /etc/fstab text file)

Any of that worky?

alafairnadia

grrr!!!! failed to access /dev/sdb1
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

alafairnadia

whoops. should not play with ubuntu after having vino. figured it out this AM. thanks, all!