Auto mount NTFS partitions in Ubuntu in easy correct way
Modifying fstab manually has its own fears and thus I like ntfs-config to auto-mount NTFS partitions on Ubuntu. However, recent updates sometimes cause errors while running ntfs-config.
Fix for properly installing ntfs-config via AskUbuntu:
Install ntfs-config from the Software Center, then it's just a matter of choosing which drives to mount and if you want to also write to the drives.
Apparently ntfs-config crashes. To fix that you have to do this:
sudo mkdir -p /etc/hal/fdi/policyIf you run ntfs-config, from the terminal you'll get an error about that directory which doesn't exist, …


