(edit) I assume you’re mounting the NTFS volume using fstab
, which is how you should mount internal drives. If you’re trying to use the file manager to mount it dynamically, you really should look into how to use the fstab
file.
I’d like to see your mount options.
As others have said, it’s best to explicitly mount it with the rw
option.
Second, because NTFS doesn’t understand the Unix-like file ownership of users and groups, you have to specify the UID and GID of the mounted filesystem using the uid=
and gid=
mount options. If you don’t specify these, all files within the NTFS volume will appear as being owned by root. Use the uid=1000,gid=1000
options to mount the volume as owned by your user.
Third, use the windows_names
option as well. Otherwise the filesystem will allow you to create files with illegal names, and that will completely fuck up the volume when mounted on Windows. For example, the :
character is permitted by NTFS, but not by Windows.
Although, in general, just avoid using NTFS on Linux if you can. The driver is good, but there are too many basic conceptual differences between NTFS and most Linux filesystems.
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