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How to automount NTFS partitions?

I have 300 gb NTFS drive with documents folder on it. Is it possible to automount /media/300gb/documents to home/documents at system startup? How can i do it?

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You'll first have to set up the NTFS partition to be automounted (see this answer), then you can set up the appropriate links as @mikewhatever suggested.

Along with this you might also need to update the entries in the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file for it to apply a specific user, or /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf for all users.

In my case (under Ubuntu 12.10) I moved my Documents folder to a backup location before replacing it with a link to a folder on an NTFS partition. But afterwards Nautilus, LibreOffice, etc. still defaulted to the old folder until I updated the user-dirs.dirs file.

For more detail, see this answer.

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The fstab entry to bind mount one location to another looks like this:

/media/300gb/documents /home/USER/documents bind defaults,bind,auto, rw 0 0

You might need to adjust the mount options (defaults,bind) for ntfs a bit: users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=YOUR_GROUP_ID,uid=YOUR_USER_ID

Remove the 'exec' if you don't intend to install executables on the ntfs partition. You can determine your group and user IDs with the id command in a terminal.

Your link problem possibly stems from the fact, that documents is already an existing directory when you are issuing the link command.

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Instead of messing with mount points, you can create a link to /media/300gb/documents like this:

ln -s /media/300gb/documents ~/documents
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