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Only root can mount, why?

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I am dual booting Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. I looked at my /etc/fstab yesterday and realized it did not contain my Windows 7 partition. So I added it myself, but now it tells me it cannot mount the partition. My /etc/fstab now looks like this:

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0



# Ubuntu /dev/sda6

UUID=581c89aa-d71c-460c-96c0-04f188fe862a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0 1



# swap /dev/sda5

UUID=99b951b9-1a57-43ee-938e-fe31b1ba754f none            swap    sw           $



# Windows /dev/sda3

UUID=12AA9E31AA9E1179         /media/12AA9E31AA9E1179     ntfs    errors=remount-r0 0 2

I am trying to mount it by opening a file browser and simply clicking the drive with my mouse. What did I do wrong here when editing my fstab?

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answered 1 Year ago ousear · Accepted Answer

You need to add the user argument to allow regular users to mount the drive. i.e.:

UUID=12AA9E31AA9E1179         /media/12AA9E31AA9E1179     ntfs    users,errors=remount-ro 0 2

This will make it automatically mount at boot. You may also want to check the permissions of the folder that you are mounting to (/media/12AA9E31AA9E1179) when the drive is unmounted and make sure that your other users have access to this folder.

Also, here is some more useful information on fstab.

If you want to be able to manually mount and unmount the drive from Nautilus, just remove the line altogether, or comment it out with a #. That will leave it up to Nautilus to mount/unmount it, which works better in that case.