the vista in Ubuntu

hello all

although I dont run the vista, I am dual booting vista ultimate & gutsy. However, each time I am in Ubuntu, the vista drive is on the desktop. moreover, i would need to do a mount check or something every 24 times? Does any1 know how to get rid of the auto mount vista drive and mount it only when I need it? thank you

 

I'm not an expert in Linux matters, but this sounds to me that somehow your Ubuntu setup isn't quite right. Are you sure it installed correctly, and aside from this issue, does it run normally?

On the machines in which I've installed any Linux distro, before either OS boots I'm offered a choice of flavors: Windows or Linux (or Linux can simply be allowed to boot as default). Once the OS of choice has loaded, no further sign of the other system is seen. Further, I've never heard of the situation you describe; it's seems very odd. I hope folks with more Linux experience post a better answer than mine. The solution is probably simple, and should be interesting. Good luck.

 

I believe he means he saw the Vista partition which is normal as modern day linux can read(and if use ntfs-ng write) Windows partition. It is a feature to facilitate moving data back and forth for dual boot system.

The mount check should not be about NTFS but more like the root partition of linux, again a preventive measure that should be there.

 

This is not a problem with your installation; this happens by default in Ubuntu so that you can access your data on that partition. It will automatically mount any partition that it can read.

I think there is a way to disable this. It's been a while since I've used Ubuntu, but try right clicking the drive icon and changing a property. There may be one called "Auto mount" or something. Short of that, you could remove ntfs-3g from starting up with the system, though I don't think I would advise it.

 

I suppose if you really don't want it to be mounted you could just edit /etc/fstab (as root) and comment out any lines that (in the second "column") show a mount point /windows/drive_letter by putting a "#" at the beginning of the line.

Make sure, though, you don't comment out any of the Linux partitions which might have mount points such as /, swap, /usr, or /home

 

jasperjones is on the right track, but that will make it harder to mount the partition when you need it.

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Instead of commenting the line, however, just change the mount option "auto" to "noauto". Then it will not mount it at boot.

Code:

/dev/hda1     /mnt/windows     ntfs     [B][U]no[/U][/B]auto,ro,users 0 0

Now you will still be able to mount it when you want:

Code:

sudo mount /dev/hda1