Ubuntu – Auto-mounts ntfs drives in Read-Only Mode

I installed pysdm through this article to auto-mount my ntfs partitions.

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:

The assistant options for the ntfs drives are as follows:

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:

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 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 from a LiveCD and mounting the drive on /mnt/*.

PROBLEMS NOW

1. When I look at the contents under /media, they are:

   jatin@jatin-ubuntu:~$ cd /media/
   jatin@jatin-ubuntu:/media$ ls
   Fun Jatin Masti sda2 sda3 sda5 sda7 sdc1 Silver Silver Spoon
   Study Windows7

With issues in all the directories in bold. When I open Silver or Silver Spoon, nothing shows up.

1. Some of my ntfs drives get auto-mounted in READ-ONLY Mode, while others get auto-mounted in correct(READ-WRITE) mode.

2. 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 file.

QUESTIONS

1. Are both these fstab and fstab.BAK files important? Shouldn't just one be there?

2. How can I get my system in it's previous state, before I installed pysdm?

3. When should I uninstall pysdm, before editing the fstab file or after?