How to mount SATA Ntfs Partitions on Arch Linux

Please help me mounting sata ntfs partitions.
Here is my fdisk -l :
[kaola@ArchHost ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x020e020e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 371 2980026 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 372 2803 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2804 6450 29294527+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 6451 6463 104422+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd7a23d33
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 5875 47182905 5 Extended
/dev/sdb2 * 5876 9139 26218080 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb5 2 3918 31463271 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 3919 5875 15719571 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 4043 MB, 4043308544 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00050ebd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 491 3943926 b W95 FAT32
As far as I know, the sata ntfs partitions are those with (sdb#).
I tried mounting one of them but this is what it shows:
[kaola@ArchHost ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb6
mount: can't find /dev/sdb6 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Please help me, this is very annoying compared to ubuntu which does do the job pretty well. By the way, I'm using kde as my DE. Dolphin sees the partitions but cant access.
It says:
An error occured while accessing 'Backup2 HD2', the system responded:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure: TODO:
have to rethink extra options
Reading some tutorials on ntfs-3g wiki, I've modified my fstab. Still, I can't read the partitions...Please help me, this is my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
UUID=2167baaa-d1e0-4719-920c-0bc09fa56caa / reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=3e2250a0-ac45-458c-ba40-44ddbe8af54d /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=cbf76343-12cf-4975-9284-3360735be927 /home reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=f39da452-efe4-49d0-abd4-bb5246b83b33 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
UUID=2167baaa-d1e0-4719-920c-0bc09fa56caa / reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=3e2250a0-ac45-458c-ba40-44ddbe8af54d /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=cbf76343-12cf-4975-9284-3360735be927 /home reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=f39da452-efe4-49d0-abd4-bb5246b83b33 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs1 ntfs-3g users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/ntfs2 ntfs-3g users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /mnt/ntfs3 ntfs-3g users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sda6 /mnt/ntfs4 ntfs-3g users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
Last edited by kaola_linux (2008-10-04 14:51:24)

AD28 wrote:
For seamless integration similar to Ubuntu:
Follow this wiki for ntfs-3g installation and fstab configuration.
For basic on-demand support:
# pacman -Sy ntfs-3g
and mount with:
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdbX /mnt
Now that did the trick!!!!!
A happy Arch Linux user here!!!!hehee
Any idea how to automate this? I want it to be automatically mounted so that it would be easy to transfer files...Pleasssseeeeee.....Thanks

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