External hard drives will not automount after upgrade to Feisty from Edgy

[myxal]

Re: External hard drives will not automount after upgrade to Feisty from Edgy

good point, but:
(/etc/fstab) I just can't be bothered by editing fstab for every external ntfs drive that comes around, and
(self-patch) as a noob I don't feel quite confident editing sources, compiling and all that (maybe it's just me?)
Hope this gets officially fixed soon since ntfs is the only means to swap files >4GiB with windoze... (well, that and over network)

and one more thing bothers me - how come it worked in edgy?

[SheeEttin]

Re: External hard drives will not automount after upgrade to Feisty from Edgy

Dunno. I guess that patch got applied to the version released for Edgy (or wasn't necessary for some reason), but not Feisty.

Anyway, compiling isn't actually that hard. It's just get the source, patch it (one command!), make, make install.
Of course, back in my day...

[json684]

Re: External hard drives will not automount after upgrade to Feisty from Edgy

So someone on the Ubuntu forums had the solution to my problem. Right click on the drive, go to mounting and uncheck "mount as user" and now my USB ntfs works.

[myxal]

Re: External hard drives will not automount after upgrade to Feisty from Edgy

Well NOW I'm puzzled - because that worked!!! Did you also have to patch pmount?

EDIT: not only it works, it works perfectly! before, the partition got mounted to /media/sd... now, it gets mounted to a folder named by its volume label, is read-write and 'removing' (read "safely remove", not 'rm' ) either of the partitions removes both, since they are on the same hard drive - just PERFECT! Still, why is ot OK to mount VFAT as user but not NTFS, is somewhat beyond me... Anyway, here's my mount output for the USB HDD, should anyone be interested:

/dev/sdd1 on /media/IBM_RELOADED type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdd2 on /media/IBM_SERVICE type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower)

Don't know what happened to /dev/sdc...

now all I need is to get resume from S3 working and goodbye, Bill...