1 Topic by pigeon123

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Topic: Automounting NTFS usb drive

I am trying to setup automounting in an XFCE system running the Thunar file manager.  I installed gvfs, and ntfs-3g with intent that it should allow reading and writing to a usb drive that was formatted as NTFS.  With these installments, I am able to have Thunar automount the NTFS usb drive, but it only gives me read permission, no write permission.  With an ext4 formatted usb drive, I can get both read and write permission.  Is it possible to get write permission on the NTFS drive?

2 Reply by dikasp2

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Re: Automounting NTFS usb drive

probably an older ntfs3g bug

try download ntfs-3g from parabola linux web and install it locally with pacman -U

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Re: Automounting NTFS usb drive

This is fixed even within 0.3.1. Good advice is not to install packages you don't have compiled yourself from other systems as Parabola is using systemd and many other unwanted depedencies.  You can also use newer PKGBUILDs from 0.4 if you want as ntfs-3g is here: https://www.hyperbola.info/packages/ext … 4/ntfs-3g/

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