Recently I noticed (may be after an update) that my external NTFS disk was mounted read-only after plugging it in. This was strange since the r/w mount worked since a couple of years with ntfs-3g.
The fs mount options were these:
but I got permission denied errors on file creation attempts.
Classic command line mount as super user worked fine, but not for an unprivileged user. I looked hours for hal and udev settings but the solution was obviously much more simple:
Since then the fs mount options became these:
And file creation works like a charm again.
That's it!
The fs mount options were these:
ntfs-3g(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077)
but I got permission denied errors on file creation attempts.
Classic command line mount as super user worked fine, but not for an unprivileged user. I looked hours for hal and udev settings but the solution was obviously much more simple:
# ln -s /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfsSince then the fs mount options became these:
fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=512)
And file creation works like a charm again.
That's it!
