Re: Debian Sarge dual boot install

I demand that Agustin may or may not have written...

[snip]
> You can automount your NTFS partition by editing a line in your fstab but
> remember that if you do so you are NOT advised to edit/delete files in that
> partition, as you may break the file system. A nasty little short cut do do
> this is: Open your terminal window - type "su" and press enter, then your
> admin password in order to get root priviliges. Now type "nautilus" to run
> a file manager, when this opens right-click on the first folder you see and
> click on the drop-down menu item "explore folder" (or view folder...) and
> navigate to folder /etc where you should find a file named "fstab".
> Right-click on this file and select open with gedit (or similar text
> editor".

Alternatively, open a terminal window and type
su - -c 'nano /etc/fstab'

(Unless you *really* need your current environment information to be
available to root, use "su -" rather than "su".)

Now edit the file and press Ctrl-O (to write the file) then Ctrl-X to exit.
(These controls are documented by the editor at the bottom of the terminal
window.)

[snip]
> Add the following line to this file and then save it:

> /dev/hda1 /mnt/W2K_NTFS auto noauto,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

And if you want it to be read-only (a *good* idea for the moving target which
is NTFS), add "ro," immediately before "noauto".

You can alter the uid and gid values if you like, although 1000 is correct
for the first non-system user on your common or garden Debian installation.
(Quick check: open another terminal window and type "echo $UID". Your group
ID will normally have the same value.)

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