Auto-Mount NTFS Partitions Like Steve’s Mom

This is a simpo one to do! Woot! Let’s mount some stuff!

Firstly use the add/remove applications feature to install the “NTFS Configuration Tool“.

Then, run the NTFS Configuration Tool and select the drive you wish to map.

Virtual Machine Note: If you want to use this drive later via some windows virtual machine, make sure the drive name has no spaces in it (spaces in a partition name don’t play nice).

Once you mount a NTFS partition/drive it will show on your desktop as a mounted item.

Further ramblings: this tool basically just messes around with your /etc/fstab file, thus creating an entry because you are either a) Lazy, or b) a Newb. Open up the file to see the south african ooobuntooo magic within. If you ever want to remove this mounted NTFS partition, the 28 year old nerds/virgins who created wonderful NTFS Configuration Tool neglected to allow a deselect or what Steve’s mom refers to as the “dismount”… so you have to get your arms all dirty and do it yourself by removing the line in the /etc/fstab file yourself. Then you also have to clean-up after the dismount by typing in terminal: sudo umount /etc/”nameofstupidNTFSdrive”

This concludes my first shenanigan. I am spent.