On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 03:07:16PM -0700, Preston C. wrote: > > No problem :) > > > > You also have the HAL method, which can be handy if you remove/attach the > > drive often. But if the drive is attached all or most of the time, good ol' > > fstab is the easiest and most reliable. ;) > > The drive hasn't been unplugged since I got it. Do I need to install > ntfs-3g, before adding the line into fstab? > > Can you tell me which one, if any, of these lines would work: > /dev/sdc1 /media/exterhalhd ntfs ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 > /dev/sdc1 /media/exterhalhd ntfs ro,user,auto,unhide 0 0 > /dev/sdc1 /media/exterhalhd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 > /dev/sdc1 /media/exterhalhd ntfs ro,user,auto,unhide 0 0 > > Will any of those lines work? I do not really understand whether to > put auto or ntfs- for type, and about the options, as you can probably > tell, :-). I read up on it, just not sure. > > Thanks. You can't be sure about the device number of your external hard drive. I suggest you to use a line like this in fstab UUID /media/exterhalhd ntfs-3g options.... To find your volume UUID: ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ For the options and further info see Gregory T Helton post. ================ "An error occured while accessing 'Free Agent Drive', the system responded: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options no <-- (action,result)" This is a known hal/kde bug; inside kde you can't mount ntfs partitions! See for example: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157378 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378041 http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=297389 (google: "hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options"; TODO: rethink) My approach is not fstab based; I mount my devices with gnome-mount. As root: gnome-mount -p device-label or gnome-mount -d /device/path bye
