External ntfs hard drive gripe !!

[weldeyes]

I know exactly where and what it is on my system
 " /dev/sdb1 : UUID="21D5118C620AE515"  TYPE="ntfs"
 because I used  [root@localhost bryce]# blkid
to find it .

My initial problem was the same as in this thread
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,63279.0.html

Now I have already edited the  /etc/fstab to try to mount it as a user and
it worked once then it refused to mount the second time by somehow changing itself to
  /dev/sdc1  ; how I don't know and just about to tare what hair I have left out !!!

Would someone please be able to help me out or in courage me to use my brain a bit harder ?      :'(

[Was_Just19]

I know exactly where and what it is on my system
 " /dev/sdb1 : UUID="21D5118C620AE515"  TYPE="ntfs"
 because I used  [root@localhost bryce]# blkid
to find it .

My initial problem was the same as in this thread
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,63279.0.html

Now I have already edited the  /etc/fstab to try to mount it as a user and
it worked once then it refused to mount the second time by somehow changing itself to
  /dev/sdc1  ; how I don't know and just about to tare what hair I have left out !!!

Would someone please be able to help me out or in courage me to use my brain a bit harder ?      :'(

Use the UUID in the mount line in fstab ..........  

[weldeyes]

The entry in the fstab  for my external drive is :
   #Entry for /dev/sdb1 :

     UUID=21D5118C620AE515   /mnt/windows  ntfs - 3g
     defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8,unmask=000    0    0
Then the next two lines appeared from nowhere !

  non    /dev/pts     devpts  defaults       0   0
                    non    /proc          proc      defaults       0   0

Now my latest bklid command revealed  that the drive is now
/dev/sdc1 but the UUID number is the same as before ?

Any idears ?

[Old-Polack]

weldeyes:

I've got a great idea... stop shouting at everyone, in every post, or I'll have to give you a time out, and sit you in the corner!

[weldeyes]

Point taken Mr old-polack ; and by the way the
PClinuxOS  team have done a great job of 2010 beta which I am currently
running ; just it's a bit hard for me to use my brain at the age of 53 on
these matters; but I will try not to shout from now on.
 

[Was_Just19]

Point taken Mr old-polack ; and by the way the
PClinuxOS  team have done a great job of 2010 beta which I am currently
running ; just it's a bit hard for me to use my brain at the age of 53 on
these matters; but I will try not to shout from now on.
 

You are using a beta version? !!!

Get the 2010.1 final release and use that.

/mnt/windows  ntfs - 3g

As I previously mentioned I don't use NTFS, but nontheless that looks like it has spaces where maybe there should be none.

So should that be

ntfs - 3g        or
ntfs-3g

?

[weldeyes]

I didn't know the final was out; but thank you all for your patients
and help and I will let you know how I've got on .
 

[Bald Brick]

/mnt/windows  ntfs - 3g

As I previously mentioned I don't use NTFS, but nontheless that looks like it has spaces where maybe there should be none.

So should that be

ntfs - 3g        or
ntfs-3g

?

It should be ntfs-3g.

In addition to that "unmask=000" in the options field should be umask=000. (And "defaults" is redundant. Also, according to the man-page for ntfs-3g the option locale=en_US.UTF-8 "can be useful when wanting a language specific locale environment. It is however discouraged as it leads to files with untranslatable chars to not be visible. Please see more information about this topic at http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale".)

The line could look like this:

UUID=21D5118C620AE515   /mnt/windows  ntfs-3g  umask=000  0  0

In 2010.1 final too ...