NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
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NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
I'm running Linux Mint 19, Cinnamon. The same problem was on mint 18 and both Mate and Cinnamon.
The issue: I have a drive partitioned. One is formatted NTFS for windows and linux boot boot.
In Mint, the shared Data partition is set to automount on startup, however I cannot launch any applications, nor do any of the Launchers do not appear...
As soon as I open the file manager and click the partition drive name, the partition becomes available. Now all the programs can be loaded, and all launchers work.
What is going on? It is automounted - I checked Disks and Mount Options (nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show). Why is it now available immediately?
I enjoy mint but this is becoming quite bothersome.
Any help is appreciated.
The issue: I have a drive partitioned. One is formatted NTFS for windows and linux boot boot.
In Mint, the shared Data partition is set to automount on startup, however I cannot launch any applications, nor do any of the Launchers do not appear...
As soon as I open the file manager and click the partition drive name, the partition becomes available. Now all the programs can be loaded, and all launchers work.
What is going on? It is automounted - I checked Disks and Mount Options (nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show). Why is it now available immediately?
I enjoy mint but this is becoming quite bothersome.
Any help is appreciated.
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Re: NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
Can you post your
/etc/fstab
?Re: NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
Hi 4RainButterfly,
How did you set this partition to "automount"?
This method should work on any drive partition using any file system that is installed in your Linux system including Linux file systems (ext4, btrfs, etc...), MS Windows (fat32, NTFS, exfat (install exfat stuff), etc...), even Mac OS (install drivers).
If you are using the nice "disks" application, click the drive on the left, click partition on the right-side that you always want available, click the "gear" icon below, select edit mount options, turn off the button for automount or session at the top, check "automount at startup" and "show in user interface", maybe change the "indentify as" box to the disk's label (if it has one), note what is in the "mount point" box, click ok. The drive will automatically be mounted and identified from then on in file managers and elsewhere as whatever was in the "mount point" box. This also updates the "fstab" drive and partition control file for you, restart your computer afterward.
If the drive has a Linux filesystem (ext4, btrfs, etc..) then you will also have to give yourself (user) permission to read and write to the drive.
Run the console terminal command below (you can copy and paste it) to give your user permission to all mounted drives and their partitions. If you only want to give the user permission to a specific drive's partition then add the "mount point" partition's identifier name or label to the end of the command.
or
Hope this helps ...
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How did you set this partition to "automount"?
This method should work on any drive partition using any file system that is installed in your Linux system including Linux file systems (ext4, btrfs, etc...), MS Windows (fat32, NTFS, exfat (install exfat stuff), etc...), even Mac OS (install drivers).
If you are using the nice "disks" application, click the drive on the left, click partition on the right-side that you always want available, click the "gear" icon below, select edit mount options, turn off the button for automount or session at the top, check "automount at startup" and "show in user interface", maybe change the "indentify as" box to the disk's label (if it has one), note what is in the "mount point" box, click ok. The drive will automatically be mounted and identified from then on in file managers and elsewhere as whatever was in the "mount point" box. This also updates the "fstab" drive and partition control file for you, restart your computer afterward.
If the drive has a Linux filesystem (ext4, btrfs, etc..) then you will also have to give yourself (user) permission to read and write to the drive.
Run the console terminal command below (you can copy and paste it) to give your user permission to all mounted drives and their partitions. If you only want to give the user permission to a specific drive's partition then add the "mount point" partition's identifier name or label to the end of the command.
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sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /media/$USER/
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sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /mnt/
Hope this helps ...
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Last edited by phd21 on Sun May 05, 2019 5:34 pm, edited 10 times in total.
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Re: NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
@phd21
Thank you! This is exactly what I needed. It solved the issue 100%. I think Mint should have this by default because this was quite an advanced config to play with , in order to get it working how I expected. I appreciate your help!
Thank you! This is exactly what I needed. It solved the issue 100%. I think Mint should have this by default because this was quite an advanced config to play with , in order to get it working how I expected. I appreciate your help!
Re: NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
Hi 4RainButterfly,
You are very welcome...
You are very welcome...
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Re: NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
Nice mini-tutorial phd21.
Re: NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
Hi PHD1,Found your post to 4RainButterfly most interesting and helpfull. I am a newbie so I am not sure if it is OK to
tag along this post as my problem is somehow linked to it - I did run the chown command as suggested and rebooted - did check with my userid no change - I had read-only access to Win NTFS partition before and after. Logged in with another user-id and to my surprise all partitions were mounted and accessible in read-only mode (this includes EFI, NTFS, Ext4 & swap!). But no access to modify, delete or change files on the WIN NTFS partition which is where I (&many more users I guess) store my data so it is accessible by both OS's. How can we unlock this NTFS partition? Using administrator rights does nothing.
tag along this post as my problem is somehow linked to it - I did run the chown command as suggested and rebooted - did check with my userid no change - I had read-only access to Win NTFS partition before and after. Logged in with another user-id and to my surprise all partitions were mounted and accessible in read-only mode (this includes EFI, NTFS, Ext4 & swap!). But no access to modify, delete or change files on the WIN NTFS partition which is where I (&many more users I guess) store my data so it is accessible by both OS's. How can we unlock this NTFS partition? Using administrator rights does nothing.
Re: NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
Hi RayJ0G,
Just noticed that your reply was not answered, sorry about that.
I no longer use MS Windows since I can do everything I used to do in MS Windows in my Linux Mint system.
But, I have an NTFS (MS Windows files system) on a drive partition and on my USB backup drives for compatibility with other operating systems and devices and because I did not want to deal with Linux permissions (although that is not hard to do).
I have never had issues accessing my NTFS partitions because they do not need permissions from Linux systems. The only time I have read about that being a problem is if people are dual-booting Linux Mint with MS Windows and their MS Windows system was not completely shut down before they booted into their Linux system, do not use MS Windows suspend or hibernate.
Make sure you have these packages installed, and they are usually installed by default.
Here are some related links:
Why does my NTFS partition mount as read only? - Ask Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/70281/w ... -read-only
mount - NTFS volumes read-only since update - Ask Ubuntu ("dirty" Ms Windows partition, run chkdsk)
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1111236 ... nce-update
Linux version of running "chkdsk" or "check disk" on a ntfs file system is "ntfsfix" and some other commands or applications, replace the "aX" in commands showing "/dev/sdaX" with the actual drive partition's designation which you can find using the "lsblk -f" command or "disks" application or a partition manager editor.
Also, normally you cannot run disk repairs on a mounted (in-use) drive partition, so you may have to unmount (umount) that drive's partition before running a check disk repair.
List all connected drives and their partitions and the type of file systems on them. Ex: my NTFS partition on my main drive is "sda4"
or
unmount
NTFS check
To re-mount a drive for access, just bring up your file manager and click the drive (may have to click refresh or redisplay), or logout and back in, use "disks", use the system tray icon for "removable drives" or "device notifications" and click the triangle to the right of a drive and or its partition, etc...
How to Fix a Corrupted Windows NTFS Filesystem With Ubuntu
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-corru ... em-ubuntu/
You can also use a bootable CD/DVD disc or USB Stick of MiniTool Partition Wizard to fix Ms Windows drives and their partitions.
Hope this helps ...
Just noticed that your reply was not answered, sorry about that.
I no longer use MS Windows since I can do everything I used to do in MS Windows in my Linux Mint system.
But, I have an NTFS (MS Windows files system) on a drive partition and on my USB backup drives for compatibility with other operating systems and devices and because I did not want to deal with Linux permissions (although that is not hard to do).
I have never had issues accessing my NTFS partitions because they do not need permissions from Linux systems. The only time I have read about that being a problem is if people are dual-booting Linux Mint with MS Windows and their MS Windows system was not completely shut down before they booted into their Linux system, do not use MS Windows suspend or hibernate.
Make sure you have these packages installed, and they are usually installed by default.
Code: Select all
sudo apt install ntfs-3g fuse
Why does my NTFS partition mount as read only? - Ask Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/70281/w ... -read-only
mount - NTFS volumes read-only since update - Ask Ubuntu ("dirty" Ms Windows partition, run chkdsk)
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1111236 ... nce-update
Linux version of running "chkdsk" or "check disk" on a ntfs file system is "ntfsfix" and some other commands or applications, replace the "aX" in commands showing "/dev/sdaX" with the actual drive partition's designation which you can find using the "lsblk -f" command or "disks" application or a partition manager editor.
Also, normally you cannot run disk repairs on a mounted (in-use) drive partition, so you may have to unmount (umount) that drive's partition before running a check disk repair.
List all connected drives and their partitions and the type of file systems on them. Ex: my NTFS partition on my main drive is "sda4"
Code: Select all
lsblk -f
Code: Select all
sudo fdisk -l
Code: Select all
sudo umount /dev/sdaX
Code: Select all
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdaX
Code: Select all
sudo mount /dev/sdaX
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-corru ... em-ubuntu/
You can also use a bootable CD/DVD disc or USB Stick of MiniTool Partition Wizard to fix Ms Windows drives and their partitions.
Hope this helps ...
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Re: NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
Thank you so much! I just turned my "old" SSD system drive into a partitioned Timeshift / Data Storage drive after having installed a new WD Black NVME M.2 drive, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why those drives wouldn't show up when my external HDDs do and always have.phd21 wrote: ⤴Thu Oct 04, 2018 5:04 pm If you are using the nice "disks" application, click the drive on the left, click partition on the right-side that you always want available, click the "gear" icon below, select edit mount options, turn off the button for automount or session at the top, check "automount at startup" and "show in user interface", maybe change the "indentify as" box to the disk's label (if it has one), note what is in the "mount point" box, click ok. The drive will automatically be mounted and identified from then on in file managers and elsewhere as whatever was in the "mount point" box. This also updates the "fstab" drive and partition control file for you, restart your computer afterward.
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Re: NTFS Partition does not activate even with automount, until clicking drive in file manager
Hi Portreve,
You are very welcome.
As you are probably already aware, giving your drive partitions an easy to identify name for a volume label before mounting them will make using them in your system and various apps much easier; you can use the disks app to change the volume label as well. I have also noticed that some applications like some multimedia streaming apps do not like the Linux default mounting folder under the user name, so using a generic folder name like /mnt is preferred.
You are very welcome.
As you are probably already aware, giving your drive partitions an easy to identify name for a volume label before mounting them will make using them in your system and various apps much easier; you can use the disks app to change the volume label as well. I have also noticed that some applications like some multimedia streaming apps do not like the Linux default mounting folder under the user name, so using a generic folder name like /mnt is preferred.
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