Adding a NTFS partition to fstab
October 3, 2007Fstab it’s located in “/etc/fstab”, and it’s a plain text file which contains the information about our disks, and the how they should be mounted in the system.
If you want to add a NTFS partition you must type this:
/dev/hda[X] /mnt/[folder_name] ntfs ro,user,auto,noexec,umask=0 0 0
Where:
- ro = Read Only
- user = Allow to mount the partition if you’re a limited user
- auto = This means that the partition will be mounted at the system bootup
- noexec = You’ll not be able to execute binaries (Highly recommended to Win partitions)
- “umask=0” = Means everybody can do everything with the files on the disk [See more]
- 0(first) = The partition will not be backed up
- 0 (second) = Put 1 if you want to check that partition with fcsk at the bootup (No necessary to Win)
NOTE: Put to the directory read only permissions with chmod*
Sources: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
CaZaTech 
Thats pretty good thanks but for a couple things:
On the Linux distros I’ve used, its /media/disk instead of /mnt
and on some hard drives its sda[partition#]
You can mount it where ever you please you can mount it as /ilove/linux for all I care, just make sure you create said folder before it can be mounted there.
sudo mkdir /ilove/linux
I know this post is old but I have a question. Why it is recommended to mount win partitions as noexec. I don’t think you can get a virus from win in linux, or its for something else
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