Mount your ntfs drive on boot in Ubuntu

Posted by Tristan Waddington on Jun 8, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

So you’ve got an NTFS drive you want mounted when your Ubuntu machine boots? Time to pull up your favorite editor and modify /etc/fstab.

This is what I ended up with:

/dev/mapper/sil_aiaiahddacai1 /media/Storage ntfs-3g defaults,gid=1000,uid=1000,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

Replace the gid and uid values with the ids of your group and user. Run id to get these values.

I also had to make sure I created the mount point, otherwise it would fail:

$ sudo mkdir /media/Storage

Anything I’m missing? So far it seems to work just fine.