SOLVED: Mounting NTFS with Mint 18

[ytene]

I have a small fanless computer with a single SSD that now co-hosts both Windows 10 and Mint 18. In a previous incarnation I was able to mount a "local" NTFS partition so that both Operating Systems could have read and write access to it.

However, when I migrated to Windows 10 and Mint 18, I hit all sorts of problems. The first one related to the fact that Windows 10 does not fully "purge" it's drive data. Instead, it keeps some of the contents cached [for faster boot times]. Mint can detect this, so it's necessary [to safely coexist] to go into Windows, Control Panel, Power Settings and tell it to properly shut down.

The next difficulty I had came because I could not properly mount my shared NTFS partition. Under Mint 17.3, the following fstab detail would work:-

UUID=[blahblahbblah] /media/local ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

When I tried this with Mint 18, however, I noticed that when I navigate to /media and check the file permissions of the mount point [local] after the file system was mounted, it would be set to "root:list" and would not allow regular users access...

After a bit of tinkering I came up with a workable [if imperfect] solution, which is to amend the mount string to:-

UUID=[blahblahbblah] /media/local ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=000 0 1

Now, this works, but it is an imperfect solution, because it sets the file permissions for all objects on the NTFS partition to be "rwx" for all users [i.e. every object will appear with permissions rwxrwxrwx. You will notice, if you use this, that your "local" file node in the /media folder is actually colour-coded to warn of imperfect file permissions. But it does work...

If anyone would care to suggest a more appropriate solution, I would be very grateful for the advice. However, for anyone hitting this problem [i.e. the "root:list" ownership, you should find that this will work.

However, it is likely really important that you modify your Windows 10 power management settings to ensure that your drives are safely dismounted under Windows...

Hope this helps...

[deepakdeshp]

Fast starup should be disabled in windows 10. Once done and when windows is cleanly shutdown you shoudnt face any problems. Please test

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4189 ... -10-a.html

[ytene]

I will Deepak, thank you!

[deepakdeshp]

You are welcome . Good luck.