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Manual assembly
There are two options for mounting NTFS partitions. Traditional:
# mount -t ntfs /dev/<tu-partición-NTFS> /{mnt,...}/<folder>
The second option is to call directly ntfs-3g:
# ntfs-3g /dev/<tu-partición-NTFS> /<mount-location>
Note: No need to specify the type of mount ntfs-3g. The default mount command /sbin/mount.ntfs used, which is a symbolic link to / bin / ntfs-3g once the ntfs-3g package installed.
Basic Configuration
Edit fstab
Edit your / etc / fstab file according to:
<partition> <mount point> ntfs defaults 0 0
For example:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 0
Note: For versions of ntfs-3g equal or greater to 2009.1.1, it is not necessary to add the option locale = <locale> eg: defaults, locale = de_DE.utf8, so that the file names are displayed correctly.
advanced Settings
Basically, we want to put here the defaults option because we want to have more control over how our NTFS partitions are mounted.
Edit fstab
Edit your / etc / fstab file according to:
<partition> <mount point> ntfs-3g <options> 0 0
Examples:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g users,noauto,gid=users,umask=0022 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/backup ntfs-3g users,uid=1000,gid=users,umask=0022 0 0
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The above examples are useful if you want:
your NTFS partitions are assembled and dismantled by any user belonging to the group (gid = users).
the user (uid = 1000) and group (gid = users) are the "owners" of everything in the partition and the permissions are rw-rw-r-- (0664) for files drwxrwxr -x (1775) for directories.
/ dev / sda5 is mounted automatically at boot but / dev / sda1 not
Common and useful options ntfs-3g
users
allows everyone mountar and always remove the NTFS partition as ntfs-3g binary have permission to set the SUID root (Order: chmod u + s / bin / ntfs-3g). Realize that you have to use users instead of user.
noauto
not automatically mount the partition at boot
uid
the decimal value of owner of the files and directories on an NTFS partition in particular
gid
the decimal value of the group that owns the files and directories on an NTFS partition in particular.
umask
the octal value for the mask files and folders. More information about umask here
fmask and dmask
as umask, but to set permissions individually for files and folders.