Doctor Who wrote:
On Jan 18, 2008 8:28 PM, Aaron Kulkis
wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2008-01-18 at 14:22 -0500, Doctor Who wrote:
Thanks. I installed the package successfully, but I don't see how it helps to mount the drive with ntfs-3g. According to the homepage, I should see a box pop-up when I plug the drive in giving me the option to be able to write to the drive, but that doesn't happen here. I *do* have ntfs-3g installed and can write to the drive if I mount it manually from a console.
Any ideas? Try creating an fstab line for it, using "/dev/disk/by-id/..." as the device node (it is independent of where it is plugged). Personally, I prefer using a volume label.... That way, it can identify that particular disk drive as needing 3G support, but if he decides to make, say an ext3 USB drive, it won't be a major annoyance.
So is that something like?:
LABEL=WD_Passport /media/WD_Passport ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
Does it matter what the /media mount point is named?
just as long as you make sure that /media/WD_Passport exists, you're set. oh, and why do I use volume label, rather then the unique device ID? Because with a volume label, you can replace the device without having to change the fstab on every one of your computers.
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