Automount any NTFS drive detected by Fedora 10

[Chewy1576]

Hey All!!

I'm brand new to Fedora / Linux and I have a question about automounting NTFS formatted drives and partitions. I have found several posts that detail how to add commands to /fstab to automount ntfs drives in Fedora.

My situation is that I'm booting Fedora 10 x86_64 from a USB flash drive to use as a "rescue console" for drives formatted in NTFS with corrupt / non-recoverable Windows installations. My idea is booting into Fedora 10 from the flash drive, using Fedora to sort through the files on the NTFS volume and move pictures, music, etc. from the drive before it's formatted and prepared for a fresh Windows install.

My question is: Will adding the commands to /fstab autodetect and automount any NTFS volumes present when Fedora boots (the existing hard drive with the corrupt OS) as well as any external USB devices (an external hard drive formatted in NTFS) attached while Fedora is running? If not, is there a way to get Fedora 10 to autodetect and automount any existing or external NTFS volumes?

[ryptyde]

My Fedora 10 x86_64 usb flash drive can access my Vista partition and the ntfs recovery partition as well as any external ntfs usb drives without editing fstab. The Fedora 10 x86_64 usb flashdrive will only work with 64 bit processors so you may want to use the 32 bit live image to be able to use it for both 32 and 64 bit processors. Create your live-usb with a "persistent overlay" and install "system-config-ntfs" and it will make ntfs access simple and will be found at "System>Administration>NTFS Configuration Tool".