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Minor annoyance with installer

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I have an NTFS partition which I use to store data and which is shared between Linux and Windows. When I got to the disk partitioning stage of the install, I was unable to set a mount point (or anything else) for the NTFS partition. Not a problem particularly because I was able to manually edit /etc/fstab to automount the NTFS partition once F17 was installed. I find it very odd and a minor annoyance that the installer wouldn't allow me to set a mount point for my NTFS partition. Perhaps I missed something :blink: (HowTos)

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Submitted by xfrk on 11/18/2012

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