[SOLVED] Mounted NTFS drive not showing in Nautilus.

inkrypted · #1 14th October 2012, 03:32 PM

I dual boot with Windows and have an NTFS drive where I store all my pictures and documents so I can have them accesible to both systems. I think I have made the correct entries in fstab but only one of my drives show up in Nautilus under devices or as as removable devices under Cinnamon? I can access the drive by going into /mnt/Media where it is mounted. I want them to be permenantly mounted as they are both internal drives. Plus I should be able to access them without entering the root password each time. Here is my fstab.

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Oct 13 11:46:08 2012
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_midnight-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=908141f4-8d54-4b7c-9be9-0647077252b4 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_midnight-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_midnight-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/Media ntfs rw,auto,user 1 2
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/Windows ntfs rw,auto,user 1 2

If someone could help me I would greatly apprecite it.

---------- Post added at 09:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 AM ----------

I figured it out mostly. You have to mount under media instead of mnt. I still have to enter root password when accessing the Windows drive though.

***glennzo*** · #2 14th October 2012, 05:02 PM

Does the mount command actually show these partitions as mounted?

inkrypted · #3 15th October 2012, 04:02 AM

Yes. I have also looked at them under the partition manager and they show as mounted. Thanks for the reply nice to see this distro has a good community.

Adunaic · #4 15th October 2012, 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by inkrypted

I figured it out mostly. You have to mount under media instead of mnt. I still have to enter root password when accessing the Windows drive though.

That is not true. I think there is another error. Past experience (and member of this forum) have told me it is a bad idea to permenantly mount a drive in /media. It should be in /mnt. There is no reason why it should not have worked in /mnt, or why it should be asking for a password.

Silly question, but did you create the folders /mnt/Media and /mnt/Windows?

***glennzo*** · #5 15th October 2012, 10:53 AM

Well, here's what I just did (as an exercise). I don't want / need my Windows partition mounted but just to get you started.

Code:

[glenn@script-test ~>$ su
Password: 
[root@script-test glenn>$ fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048   104859647    52428800    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       104859648   209717247    52428800   83  Linux
/dev/sda3       209717248   314574847    52428800   83  Linux
/dev/sda4       314576894   847263743   266343425    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       314576896   419434495    52428800   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       419436544   524294143    52428800   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       524296192   629153791    52428800   83  Linux
/dev/sda8       629155840   734013439    52428800   83  Linux
/dev/sda9       734015488   838873087    52428800   83  Linux
/dev/sda10      838875136   847263743     4194304   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Code:

[root@script-test glenn>$ ls /mnt/
total 48
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root  root   4096 Aug 12 03:01 backup
drwxrwxr-x.   2 glenn glenn  4096 Oct 15 05:37 data
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root  root   4096 Sep 29 06:29 enterprise
drwxrwxr-x. 491 glenn glenn 20480 Oct 14 12:12 music
drwxr-xr-x.  17 glenn glenn  4096 Sep 22 07:13 photos
drwxrwxr-x.   6 glenn glenn  4096 Aug 24 05:24 sata500
drwxrwxr-x.  12 glenn glenn  4096 Oct 14 07:46 script
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root  root   4096 Aug 15 05:16 temp

Code:

[root@script-test glenn>$ mkdir /mnt/windows

Code:

[root@script-test glenn>$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="7054BC673A4996A2" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="9ee1b5bb-49d7-46e3-a782-fad9978da832" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda3: UUID="04026b6b-96cc-4d8f-b1c8-03c235c1f412" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="bdb81aa5-63d2-4e5c-97e5-da4a46ffe465" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda6: UUID="d9db89a9-61a8-4ac7-b425-62fc7c4484dd" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda7: LABEL="arch" UUID="b7d98ecf-4ebd-4036-ae24-1ca49dc2a5ea" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda8: UUID="51f16768-8caa-4a4a-a7f1-2a2c40312f29" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda9: LABEL="_Fedora-17-x86_6" UUID="d5d442fd-cb26-4a24-9c96-6fdefe7d6c25" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda10: UUID="2fc21c4e-f0b7-46aa-aef6-23ab2fdbd668" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="sata500" UUID="b7fc2042-40be-46b9-9cce-69a5b043e044" TYPE="ext4"

Add a mount to /etc/fstab

Code:

[root@script-test glenn>$ vim /etc/fstab 
# Windows partition
UUID=7054BC673A4996A2	/mnt/windows	ntfs-3g	defaults	0 0

Mount the partition

Code:

root@script-test glenn>$ mount /mnt/windows/

List the mounted partition contents

Code:

[root@script-test glenn>$ ls /mnt/windows/
total 5044005
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root         24 Jun 10  2009 autoexec.bat
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       4096 Apr 15  2012 Boot
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     383786 Nov 20  2010 bootmgr
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       8192 Apr 15  2012 BOOTSECT.BAK
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root         10 Jun 10  2009 config.sys
lrwxrwxrwx. 2 root root         60 Jul 14  2009 Documents and Settings -> /mnt/windows/Users
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 2213404672 Oct  6 22:54 hiberfil.sys
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root          0 Feb 25  2012 IO.SYS
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root          0 Feb 25  2012 MSDOS.SYS
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root          0 Aug 13  2011 NVIDIA
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 2951208960 Oct  6 22:54 pagefile.sys
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root          0 Jul 13  2009 PerfLogs
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       4096 Jul 22 07:11 ProgramData
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       8192 Jul 22 07:29 Program Files
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       4096 Feb 25  2012 QUAKE
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root          0 Apr 15  2012 Recovery
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root          0 Apr 15  2012 $Recycle.Bin
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       8192 Oct  6 19:17 System Volume Information
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       4096 Apr 15  2012 Users
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      16384 May 28 06:55 Windows
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       4096 Apr 15  2012 Windows.old

Screen shots don't seem to be working for me at the moment but I can now access the Windows mount with Nautilus without root access.

Skull One · #6 15th October 2012, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Code:

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Oct 13 11:46:08 2012
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_midnight-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=908141f4-8d54-4b7c-9be9-0647077252b4 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_midnight-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_midnight-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/Media ntfs rw,auto,user 1 2
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/Windows ntfs rw,auto,user 1 2

In your fstab, you should use 'ntfs-3g' (provided by the ntfs-3g package) as the filesystem, and not 'ntfs'.
Look at 'man ntfs-3g' for its options.

inkrypted · #7 15th October 2012, 07:05 PM

Thanks so much I will give it a go with the nfts-3g and see what happens. I migrated here from Kubuntu and openSUSE and I always used mnt and never had a problem and just used ntfs but maybe Fedora is different. Thanks for all the replys. Half of finding a good distro is also finding a good community.

---------- Post added at 01:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:54 PM ----------

Ok using ntfs-3g it now shows under devices in dolphin but I still have to enter the root password when clicking on the Windows drive but not the Multimedia drive? I just have to enter it once. once again my fstab.

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Oct 13 11:46:08 2012
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_midnight-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=908141f4-8d54-4b7c-9be9-0647077252b4 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_midnight-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_midnight-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/Multimedia ntfs-3g rw,auto,user 1 2
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/Windows ntfs-3g rw,auto,user 1 2

nonamedotc · #8 15th October 2012, 07:31 PM

What are the permissions of the folder /mnt/windows? Is it possible that permissions is the source of the problem there?

inkrypted · #9 15th October 2012, 07:56 PM

it's owned by root but it has the same permissions as the Multimedia folder and it works just fine.

---------- Post added at 01:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:35 PM ----------

I figured it out and it's kind of a duh moment. Windows 7 has that system reserved partition so I needed to change sdc1 to sdc2 because that is actually the Windows partition.

---------- Post added at 01:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:39 PM ----------

So now I feel like an idiot. Thanks for all the help. I really apprecite it.

If you wanna give me the idiot of the week award I am deserving.

***glennzo*** · #10 15th October 2012, 08:44 PM

We'll give you the "newb brain cramp of the week" award. Some of us veterans should have seen that.

inkrypted · #11 15th October 2012, 09:53 PM

Well so far Fedora has impressed me. The community especially everyone I have met so far seems really friendly and genuine.