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I have Ubuntu 14.04 and would like to permanently mount my WD Elements external harddisk.

I currently use this to mount it manually:

sudo fdisk -l

The drive normally is at /dev/sdc1

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /media/my_directory_here

I'm guessing there is a way to automatize this?

Karl Morrison
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  1. Find UUID for the drive /dev/sdc1 with blkid command

  2. Then add a entry for the ntfs partition in /etc/fstab

    [partition]        [mount point]      [type]  [options]         [dump]  [pass]

UUID=UUIDHERE...   /media/mount/point ntfs-3g defaults,nobootwait  0      0

  3. mountall

You can also use a gui utility called ntfs-config to automatically generate an entry for you in fstab

Gayan Weerakutti
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