Home Folder does not display NTFS partitions

If you open Nautilus (file manager) and look on the pane on the left you should see something like xxxGB filesystem. This is your unmounted NTFS partition. When you click on this it will mount the partition which is why you can then see and use it in filemanager.

You can get NTFS and other partitions to mount at boot time by putting an entry for them in /etc/fstab.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

The Line you want to add to fstab will be something like
/dev/sda2 ~/ntfsdocs ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Chris

Chris,

thank you kindly for your unexpectedly rapid answer. Unfortunately, after
boot up, all I see in the *Nautilus* left pane is two items, namely *Home*and
*File System*.

I understand from your answer that it should include (in my case) a third
item, namely *602 GB File System *(this being the NTFS partition where I
keep my documents/music pictures etc., to enable sharing with Windows 7)

As a workaround, I access a *LibreOffice* application and click *its* *file*,
*open*, menu. '*602 GB File System*' then appears in the *open* menu *
Places* pane on the left. Only when I click on *602 GB File System* in the
*File, Open* menu does it then pop into the *Nautilus* left pane. *602 GB
File System* remains there until next boot up, when I need to repeat the
process.

I have not tried your *mount at boot time* suggestion yet, owing to lack
of nerve. Being a novice user I have only just started investigating the
OS and need to tread carefully and study your link first. Would this
provide an alternative cure for my problem?

Thanks, Neil.

On 6 February 2012 19:50, Chris <email address hidden>wrote:

> Your question #186998 on Ubuntu changed:
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> Chris proposed the following answer:
> If you open Nautilus (file manager) and look on the pane on the left you
> should see something like xxxGB filesystem. This is your unmounted NTFS
> partition. When you click on this it will mount the partition which is
> why you can then see and use it in filemanager.
>
> You can get NTFS and other partitions to mount at boot time by putting an
> entry for them in /etc/fstab.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
>
> The Line you want to add to fstab will be something like
> /dev/sda2 ~/ntfsdocs ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
>
>
> Chris
>
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After reading the 'Official Ubuntu Book (6th Edition), Ref., page 92, Using The Sidebar (in Nautilus). I realised that the default View I had since installation was set to 'Tree'.

Changing this to'View' 'Places' shows the missing partitions. I can therefore close this question & hope this comment will help other novice users.