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ntfs partitions mount as root instead of user as set in /etc/fstab

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http://askubuntu.com – I recently upgraded a server to Ubuntu 12.04 with a fresh install and my ntfs partitions won't mount as user at boot but I can mount them as user manually from the console with '$ sudo mount -a'. Using 'ntfsfix' reports no problems and chkdisk sees nothing wrong under Windows 7. Are the drives not ready to be mounted at boot and default to root instead of user for some reason? Here is my '/etc/fstab': UUID=E4E6B30CE6B2DDCC /media/Bowles ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0 UUID=A040C42340C3FDD2 /media/Burroughs ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0 U (HowTos)

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My user id is 1000 and second user id is 1001

and my fstab entry for the drives are

# /media/Data_Ext4 was on /dev/sda7 during installation UUID=1c2862cf-5838-49a7-bcef-715319a7841e /media/Data_Ext4 ext4 defaults,nofail,uid=1000 0 0

# /media/NTFS was on /dev/sda3 during installation UUID=4A94A52994A51889 /media/NTFS ntfs defaults,uid=1000 0

My user id is 1000 and second user id is 1001

and my fstab entry for the drives are

# /media/Data_Ext4 was on /dev/sda7 during installation UUID=1c2862cf-5838-49a7-bcef-715319a7841e /media/Data_Ext4 ext4 defaults,nofail,uid=1000 0 0

# /media/NTFS was on /dev/sda3 during installation UUID=4A94A52994A51889 /media/NTFS ntfs defaults,uid=1000 0

Ive looked everywhere to fix this problem but I cant seem to figure out why its doing this.

My reading and experimenting is going round in circles, so it's time to enlist some expert help.

I have a RaspberryPi (though could be any Debian Linux box) connected to an external hard disk formatted as NTFS.

In fstab, I've experimented with 'defaults' and 'permissions' and come to the conclusion it'd be easier using 'defaults' rather than have to map Windows users to Linux users.

/dev/sda1

After install of Win 8 Pro, Fedora 17 is unable to mount NTFS drives. I was able to do that before. I was using Win 8 pre release before in dual boot and everything was ok with fedora and NTFS mount. It all started with the official Win 8 Pro install. I have 2 HDD in NTFS the Win 8 host and a second empty but formatted NTFS.

I've written two bash scripts to give read-only or read/write access to my NTFS partition:

read-only access:

sudo umount /media/Data_Drive/ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o ro,user,auto,nls=utf8,umask=0000,uid=1000 /dev/sda2 /media/Data_Drive

read/write access:

sudo umount /media/Data_Drive/ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o rw,user,auto,nls=utf8,umask=0000,uid=1000 /dev/sda2 /media/Data_Drive

It works

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