[NCLUG] Ubunto 8.04 - autoinstall of XP partitions

[William Greger]

Bob,

  Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, but I was out of the area.
I did attempt to edit the  fstab  file, but it did not seem to work.  I probably didn't do it properly (since I'm still new to Ubuntu).
Thank you for your suggestion.  I will give it a try.

Bill Greger

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:22:31 -0600
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Ubunto 8.04 - autoinstall of XP partitions
> From: bob at proulx.com
> 
> William Greger wrote:
> >   I now have a dual-boot system - Ubuntu, XP Pro.  I need to
> >   automount the XP partitions so that they are mounted when I logon
> >   to Ubuntu.
> 
> If you *always* want the XP partitions mounted then you might as well
> just mount them all of the time at boot instead of using the autofs
> for this task.
> 
> > I am able to use the CLI and type the mount command.
> 
> Good.  It proves things are in a happy state for you.
> 
> > This will mount the drives for the active session; but this is lost
> > when I logoff.
> >   I have done the following:
> >     sudo get-apt update
> >     sudo get-apt install autofs
> > Now what should I do?
> 
> Here is my suggestion.
> 
> What is the mount point?  Is it /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1 or some such?
> Edit[1] the /etc/fstab file and look for a line similar to this one:
> 
>   sudo editor /etc/fstab
> 
>   /dev/sda1  /mnt  ntfs  ro,users,noauto  0  0
> 
> The noauto option tells the system not to mount it at boot time but to
> allow it to be mounted later.  The users option lets any user on the
> system mount it.  Change this line to have the NTFS partition mounted
> at boot time automatically.  Something like this:
> 
>   /dev/sda1  /mnt  ntfs  ro,nosuid  0  0
> 
> With this configuration in place the /dev/sda1 NTFS partition will
> always be mounted at boot time on the /mnt mount point read-only.  I
> would probably 'mkdir /microsoft' or some such name and then use that
> as the mount point instead of /mnt in that case.  You can then mount
> this once interactively and avoid the need to boot.
> 
>   sudo mount /mnt
> 
> Then if you *only* installed autofs in order to mount the NTFS
> partition then I would remove it.
> 
>   sudo apt-get remove autofs
> 
> Personally I would purge it so that the /etc/ config files are removed
> as well.  That assumes that you do not want to keep the /etc/ config
> files that were installed with the package.  It is more tidy but not
> required by any means.
> 
>   dpkg -L autofs | grep /etc/ # look at files in /etc/
> 
>   sudo apt-get remove --purge autofs  # --purge removes /etc/ files too
> 
> Bob
> 
> [1] 'editor' is an actual real command that points to your current
> system configured editor.  Same for pager.
> 
>   update-alternatives --display editor
>   update-alternatives --display pager
> 
> I use 'editor' to avoid saying use emacs, vi, nvi, vim, nedit, nano,
> pico, ed, cat or other favorite editor assuming that you will already
> have configured editor to be pointing to your editor of choice.
> 
>   sudo update-alternatives --config editor
>   sudo update-alternatives --config pager
> 
> Other people use $EDITOR for similar purposes.
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