How Make Mounting Windows Partitions in Ubuntu

To Ensure Our Mounting Windows Working, here is step by step procedure

1. Unmount the partition
2. Examine the partition table
3. Create a mount point
4. Edit the /etc/fstab file
5. FAT 32 (instead of NT FS)
6. Save changes
7. Enable read/write for NT FS


1. Unmount the partition
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If you already have your Windows partitions mounted (but with the wrong permissions),
unmount them before beginning these instructions. For example, if your Windows partit ion is
mounted as /media/hda1, then open up a terminal and type

sudo umount /media/hda1

2. Examine the partition table
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The first thing we need to do is figure out where the Windows partitions are in the partition
table. Typing

sudo fdisk -l

will tell you the location and the filesystem type (FAT 32 or NT FS). For example, my

sudo fdisk -l

looks like this:
Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1911 15350076 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1912 19457 140938245 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1912 14716 102856131 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 14717 17278 20579233+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 17279 17404 1012063+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda8 17405 19457 16490691 83 Linux

From this, I can see that my Windows partition is type NTFS and is located at /dev/hda1.

3. Create a mount point
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The next thing I need to do is create a mount point. This mount point may already exist
as /media/hda1, but I like creating a separate directory altogether:
sudo mkdir /windows


4. Edit the /etc/fstab file
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Now, we need to edit the /etc/fstab file to make the Windows partition mount with the
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proper permissions (NTFS is read-only in Ubuntu). First, let's make a back-up copy of
the /etc/fstab file:
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
.
Next, let's edit the fstab file:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
This is what it might look like before we change it:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
Note: Starting with Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10), the appearance of the /etc/fstab file has
changed a bit, but the principle still remains. Instead of looking like this:
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults 0 0
it may look more like this:
# /dev/hda1
UUID=FC98E2C598E27E10 /windows ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=This is what it should look like after we change it:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda1 /windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0


5. FAT32 (instead of NTFS)
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If we also had a FAT32 partition, say at /dev/hdb1, we would unmount it and create a
new mount directory for it:
sudo umount /dev/hdb1
sudo mkdir /fat_files
Then we would add in a line so that our final /etc/fstab would look like this:
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proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda1 /windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /fat_files vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0


6. Save changes
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When you're done editing the /etc/fstab file, save (Control-X), confirm (y), and exit
(Enter).
Finally, we'd remount them both:
sudo mount -a
If, for some reason, that doesn't work, try rebooting the computer.

7. Enable read/write for NTFS
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If you're using Ubuntu 7.04 (or newer) and want to enable read/write permissions (not
just read-only, as the instructions above will give you) for an NTFS partition, follow
these directions
Windows NTFS Partitions Read/write support made easy in Ubuntu Feisty
If you're using Ubuntu 6.10 (or older) and want to enabled read/write permissions for
NTFS, follow these instructions:
HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)



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