Permanently mounting NTFS partition

I have a data partition that is NTFS formatted. I could mount it previously, but it was not automounted.

To fix this, I did the following:
1. got the graphical config program for ntfg-3g with:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
2. backed up my current /etc/fstab with:
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig
3. checked the mount info with:
sudo blkid
4 ran the config program that does the mounting with:
gksudo ntfs-config
5. I chose the correct partion to mount and the chose to make it writable.

... done!

No problems so far.