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NTFS-3G permission problems

Symptom:

  • Copying files into the ntfs drive gives a bunch of errors about cannot change permission etc
  • The NTFS partition is mounted as root:root regardless of the uid,gid options on fstab

Fix:

  • fstab: ntfs-3g   noatime,user,users,gid=users,uid=blackrose,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8
  • RESTART (Dont know why this works, but it does. umount/mount does not work after changing the fstab)

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