• omns
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Topic: External USB NTFS drives with pcmanfm

One thing I noticed with pcmanfm in 8.10.02 is that it mounts external usb ntfs drives as  read only. Unfortunately I live in a windows work environment and find an external ntfs drive a necessity. The only solution I've found (that works) so far is to change the following lines in /usr/share/pcmanfm/mount.rules .

from

[ntfs]
mount_options=umask=222;utf8;exec
fstype_override=ntfs-3g

to

[ntfs]
mount_options=umask=000;utf8;exec
fstype_override=ntfs-3g

I don't think this is such a great solution security wise but it works. Anyone else have a better idea?

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Re: External USB NTFS drives with pcmanfm

Not much you can do, NTFS ACLs can't really map to Unix permissions. Only way you could make it a tad better is to use ntfs-3g on a per user basis, so they login and it's limited to 022 with a "chown" to the current user. If you add users to the plugdev and fuse group (IIRC) you should be able to do this.

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  • ghoti
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Re: External USB NTFS drives with pcmanfm

Thanks omns,

that solved my issue on Archlinux! big_smile It's been driving me nuts. For the last few days. tongue I'll try to change umask to 022 as recommanded by Nik_Doof later to see if this works as well for me.

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  • omns
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Re: External USB NTFS drives with pcmanfm

Nik_Doof wrote:

If you add users to the plugdev and fuse group (IIRC) you should be able to do this.

Thanks, I'll give this a go. I'd tried 022 before without success.

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Re: External USB NTFS drives with pcmanfm

i managed to add myself to the fuse group but couldn't find plugdev

  • alef
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Re: External USB NTFS drives with pcmanfm

Hi,

The only solution I've found (that works) so far is to change the following lines in /usr/share/pcmanfm/mount.rules .

from

[ntfs]
mount_options=umask=222;utf8;exec
fstype_override=ntfs-3g

to

[ntfs]
mount_options=umask=000;utf8;exec
fstype_override=ntfs-3g

In my case, this solution did not work, even after having restarted hal daemon or a reboot of the system.

Whenever I need to write on my external drive, I then mount it through the terminal...

This resource may be helpful : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

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Re: External USB NTFS drives with pcmanfm

Thanks a lot!

[ntfs]
mount_options=umask=000;utf8;exec
fstype_override=ntfs-3g

Works fine!)

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