[SOLVED] mount windows partition

joosca77 · 2012-03-12 04:54:32

I have searched and searched and apparently I don't know exactly what to search for as I believe this is a simple question. I am brand new to Arch (LOVING IT) but have had some experience with Ubuntu & Suse. In the other distro's it automatically mounts the windows partitions so I can browse the files. I cannot figure out how to do this in Arch.

blkid shows:

/dev/sde2: LABEL="Video Library" UUID="C2FC5B80FC5B6E23" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sr0: LABEL="ARCH_201108" TYPE="udf"
/dev/sr1: LABEL="WD SmartWare" TYPE="udf"
/dev/sdh1: LABEL="Cloned Backup" UUID="9AAC59EDAC59C483" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="AA1656931656607D" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="1822651D226500DC" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc3: UUID="A22E46662E463397" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="adb26c01-d1e7-4d0a-96c0-c69f2710ea15" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda2: UUID="6ff4c8f7-9c0b-4b6b-86f5-a15f351d2dda" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: UUID="c23f72da-1da4-4ee5-b631-82662fa1e73b" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda4: UUID="846ba3ed-859c-4df7-889e-822dff32ff6c" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdf1: LABEL="Software" UUID="42BE8456BE8443FF" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdi1: LABEL="My Book" UUID="C6B89CABB89C9B8D" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdi5: LABEL="ACRONIS SZ" UUID="EF53DBE231231884" TYPE="ntfs"

I am trying to mount:

/dev/sdf1: LABEL="Software" UUID="42BE8456BE8443FF" TYPE="ntfs"

by adding to /etc/fstab:

UUID=42BE8456BE8443FF /software ntfs defaults,noatime,user

I appologize if this is a stupid question but am I doing this right?

Last edited by joosca77 (2012-03-12 16:48:07)

ewaller · 2012-03-12 05:34:34

Looks about right. The mount point /software is unorthodox; did you create that mount point? I would suggest you put the mount point under /mnt (i.e. /mnt/software), again, you have to create the mount point and point the fstab entry at it.

The disk should mount the next time you boot. In the mean time, a user should be able to perform the mount with mount /software (or wherever the mount point is)

You might look at man mount and check out the ntfs mount options gid uid and umask

joosca77 · 2012-03-12 06:02:21

Thanks ewaller I'm one step closer! Shows how much I know... I didn't create a mount point and I followed your advice and mounted to /mnt/software. Only problem now is I can access it as root but how do I make it so other users can access it? Do I use chown for something like this or do I need to mount it different in fstab? (As you can see I am new to using a command line in linux but I love all the challenges and the learning experience.)

Gcool · 2012-03-12 06:41:04

Try adding "gid=users" to your fstab line. That should give everyone in the "users" group (assuming that your user is part of it) access.

nomorewindows · 2012-03-12 15:44:31

You need fuse and nfts-3g

hesse · 2012-03-12 15:57:38

To achieve write permissions for other users than root, you will need to install ntfs-3g, which also will install the fuse package in order to work:

# pacman -Sy ntfs-3g

joosca77 · 2012-03-12 16:43:49

I have to thank all of you for helping me. The Arch reviews were right about having the best documentation/forum. Could have never done it without you! After installing ntfs-3g & fuse I had to modify the fstab to read:

UUID=42BE8456BE8443FF /mnt/software ntfs-3g defaults,noatime,users 0 0

just incase that might help somebody else.
Thanks again!

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#1 2012-03-12 04:54:32

[SOLVED] mount windows partition

#2 2012-03-12 05:34:34

Re: [SOLVED] mount windows partition

#3 2012-03-12 06:02:21

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#4 2012-03-12 06:41:04

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#5 2012-03-12 15:44:31

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#6 2012-03-12 15:57:38

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#7 2012-03-12 16:43:49

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