Mounting Partitions (Mint 5.0)

Unlike in Mint 4.0, for some reason the NTFS partitions don't auto-mount on bootup in Mint 5.0. To get them to boot, the easiest solution is to download the "ntfs-config" tool from Synaptic. It's basically a GUI tool that alters the fstab for you.

If however you're happy with editing the fstab, you need to create individual directories first in /media, using......

sudo mkdir /media/nameofdirectory

........and then alter your fstab accordingly. The finished product should look something like this......

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=a1f611d0-1cf4-4906-b652-5f851d0b70a6 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda7 :
UUID=b1fa4d86-0b25-4e96-a331-8a1033b8f647 /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=2294b177-9d7f-4a68-a32a-ff3b8adcbefa none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /media/Video ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/Archives ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /media/Audio ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/System ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0