I had some minor trouble with this, mostly because I don’t know minutiae about Linux, so I needed some help. Making NTFS partitions automount makes life a bit easier, especially when dual booting and trying to get something like Thunderbird to use the same folder for the message store on both Windows and Linux. Two OS’es, one folder, email bliss.

I did some hunting and found the following link most helpful: HowTo: Automount NTFS Drive

Essentially, the fix goes like this:

At Terminal:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install ntfs-config

Then make sure your NTFS drives arent otherwise mounted, run ntfs-config, (I had to do this from an Alt+F2 window, because it didnt pop a selection into my Applications menu) select your paritions, name them, hit Apply, select write suport and click apply.

Magic. I love it when someone thinks of something and has a solution I can pop in quickly.

UPDATE: Just found the NTFS Configuration tool on my “System > Administration” menu. Should have read down one more line on the original page. Go figure.