Mount NTFS Partition in /home

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Mount NTFS Partition in /home

Postby Big_Dog1968 » Tue May 12, 2009 20:59

I have several NTFS partitions, that I use to share data between my XP and Linux partitions. In Mint it was pretty easy. All I had to do was create folders in my Home folder and then edit fstab to mount the NTFS partitions in these folders. That way they auto mount when I boot and if I have to reinstall the OS, I can format the main partition with out losing any data stored in these folders.

I wan to do the same. I tried to copy the portion of my fstab file in mint that corresponds to this and paste into the Sabayon fstab, but it does not work. Here is what I tried to add:
####NTFS Shares Mounted in Home Folder
# /dev/sda8
/dev/sda8 /home/daddy/Music ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 2
# /dev/sda9
/dev/sda9 /home/daddy/Pictures ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 2
# /dev/sda10
/dev/sda10 /home/daddy/Downloads ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 2
# /dev/sda11
/dev/sda11 /home/daddy/Documents ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 2
# /dev/sda12
/dev/sda12 /home/daddy/Videos ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 2

I then created matching folders in /home (ie. /home/daddy/Videos...etc). When I rebooted they did not mount as expected. Do I need to change something for it work in Sabayon from what I did in Mint/Ubuntu?
Thanks! :D
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Re: Mount NTFS Partition in /home

Postby kodiakmax » Wed May 13, 2009 5:41

I would hazard that your group ID is wrong.

either change "gid=46" to a valid group or you probably could just delete it.
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Re: Mount NTFS Partition in /home

Postby tomv » Tue May 26, 2009 8:42

Yes, delete the GroupIDs. Also, you may want to use "ntfs-3g" instead of "ntfs" which is an in-kernel NTFS driver with limited write support (the only supported operation is overwriting existing files without changing the file length). However, either should mount the drives and give you full read access, and both methods are supported in a default Sabayon Linux installation.
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