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#1 2010-03-24 06:36:19

crepito
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Registered: 2009-11-23
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Mount NTFS unit as a disk and not as a folder

Hey guys, i'll go directly to the point.

I've been searching, so far with no results, about configuring the system to identify a ntfs disk as a "disk" and mount it as it.

I've installed ntfs-3g and i'm able to access the content of a ntfs disk, bymapping it to a folder (mounting it for exemple /disk/windows ). But i don't want that. I remember when i used ubuntu a few months ago, ntfs disks appeared in the desktop, with the disk icon and were not a folder like the solution i always find for archlinux.

Isn't it possible to do this as well here?

I hope you guys understand what i mean.

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#2 2010-03-24 07:13:38

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Re: Mount NTFS unit as a disk and not as a folder

You are misled by a graphical representation. Partitions on Linux are *always* mounted onto a directory; they're simply merged into the file system. You'll never mount a disk like in Windows; that's not how it works.

The icons you saw on Ubuntu in reality link to a mount point (a directory) in /media, probably created as needed. But the principle is exactly the same.


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#3 2010-03-24 10:13:25

crepito
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Re: Mount NTFS unit as a disk and not as a folder

I C.

Thank you for the information provided in your post.

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