Ubuntu – Best practice to keep a NTFS partition constantly mounted

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Hey all, I Dual-boot using a NTFS partition to house shared docs and some program files between Windows and Ubuntu. When this extra media partition isn't mounted automatically at startup it causes usability problems. In the past I have installed and used "NTFS Configuration Tool" to achieve this. Since I just cleanly installed ubuntu 11.04, I thought it would be fitting to ask if anyone has found a better method?

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From what i can gleen from the question, you should add the device to the fstab for auto mounting at boot time. I've got several dual boot pc's on my network and they auto-mount the NTFS partition without any usability issues.

My personal mount line in /etc/fstab looks like this:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/large ntfs user 0 0

if you dont want it to auto-mount at boot, you can always add the noauto flag

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/large noauto,ntfs user 0 0

With this particular line, any user can mount/unmount the volume.

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Step #1:

First, you should also check your /etc/fstab to assure that the mount for your NTFS partition does so as rw, not ro.

Step #2:

If you still had Windows installed, I'd recommend a different path to fix this problem.

And as always, I'd always recommend good backups.

However, without windows, (and although I wouldn't normally recommend this in a dual-boot environment) you might use ntfsfix.

In terminal...

For more information:

man ntfsfix

To use:

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdaN # replacing "N" with the correct partition number

Dual Boot – Fixing Write Issues on NTFS Partition in Ubuntu 18.04

your windows is putting the "read-only" flag on all detectable ntfs partitions everytime it shuts down or reboots.

If you don't want it to do that, boot to your windows, open up a administator powershell (to do that find powershell in start, right click on it, then select "run as Administrator").

then type :

powercfg -h off

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