I installed pysdm
through this article to auto-mount my NTFS drives.
My drive structure looks like this:
jatin@jatin-ubuntu:/media$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 18G 12G 5.5G 68% /
none 1.5G 344K 1.5G 1% /dev
none 1.5G 216K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.5G 92K 1.5G 1% /var/run
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda2 50G 50G 277M 100% /media/Jatin
/dev/sda3 49G 46G 2.9G 95% /media/Study
/dev/sda5 88G 83G 5.4G 94% /media/Fun
/dev/sda7 32G 32G 177M 100% /media/Masti
/home/jatin/.Private 18G 12G 5.5G 68% /home/jatin
/dev/sda1 59G 57G 2.4G 96% /media/Windows7
My pysdm
settings as mentioned in the above article are as follows:
In the "assistant options for the NTFS-drives", the following options are checked:
- The file system is mounted at boot time.
- Mount file-system in only read-only mode.
I have two files: /etc/fstab
and /etc/fstab.BAK
with their contents as follows:
/etc/fstab
:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda8 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/Jatin ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/Study ntfs nls=iso8859-1,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/Fun ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/Masti ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,noauto,umask=000 0 0
and /etc/fstab.BAK
:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda8 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/Jatin ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/Study ntfs nls=iso8859-1,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/Fun ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/Masti ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,noauto,umask=000 0 0
Initially, I had mistakenly created Silver Spoon
as the mount location for /dev/sda2 and
it was not booting Ubuntu, then I fixed the problems by changing the fstab file contents by booting it from a LiveCD and mounting the drive on /mnt/***.
NOW, PROBLEMS:
- When I look at the contents under
/media
, they are:
Fun Jatin Masti sda2 sda3 sda5 sda7 sdc1 Silver Silver Spoon Study Windows7
with all the directories in GREEN and rest as normal. When I open Silver or Silver Spoon, nothing shows up.
Some of my NTFS drives get auto-mounted in read-only Mode, while others get auto-mounted in correct (read-write) mode.
When I try to open my external hard drive, it says only root can mount it and a user can't. I know this can be fixed by simply removing the line for /dev/sdc1 from the fstab files.
QUESTIONS:
Are both these files important,
fstab
andfstab.BAK
? Shouldn't just one be there?How can I get my system in its previous state, before I installed
pysdm
?When should I uninstall
pysdm
, before editing thefstab
file or after?
UPDATE:
Thanks all for your answers. It solved my problems.
1. Now my NTFS drives are mounted in read-write mode as I wanted.
2. I deleted the extra folders Silver
and 'Silver Spoon.
3. As of now, I am not un-installing
pysdm`, as everything's working fine except:
NEW PROBLEMS:
- The deleted folders keep on showing up, when I open the
/media
directory.
Fun Jatin Masti sda2 sda3 sda5 sda7 sdc1 Silver Silver Spoon Study Windows7
- The above folders, shown in bold show up with a green background, and the sub-directories in the same way, and the files in the sub-directories are shown with green text?
UPDATE 2
The deleted folders problems is fixed, but the other problem is why do these sda1, sda3, sda5 etc. show up, along with the names. And when I try to open these folders, there is nothing in them. What is this?
How can I get rid of this green color problem. It is a hell of a pain, reading through the folders name, trying to look out for something via terminal.
Any idea how to fix this?
ntfs-config
utility, I switched to it frompysdm
because it's simpler.