Thread: Problem automatically mounting a drive at startup.

my system has 2 drives, 1 ubuntu , other xp.
xp drive shows device (285 gb filesystem) under nautilus
, nautilus mounts drive when click device.

mount xp drive different location
mount point nautilus places it.
working bash shell, command
$sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /home/randy/xp
want;
when go nautilus , click on 285 gb filesystem
you're taken new mount point, /home/randy/xp.

next step have done autmatically @ login.
want place command
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /home/randy/xp
in file executed root privilege every startup.
tried /etc/profile , /root/.profile , neither seemed work.

have make work?

, regards - randy

hi there, file want edit called fstab, located @ /etc/fstab - can either go there in terminal , use editor of choice or navigate there in nautilus , open gedit

setting want put in is

#windows xp partition
/dev/sdb1 /home/randy/xp ntfs-3g rw,auto,user,noexec,async 0 0

for detailed list of options listed above here. think i've selected options asked - may want change noexec exec - noexec prevents binary files being executed partition - windows security feature.

hope helps
edit you'll have restart take effect!

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