NTFS partitions

Permissions for standard Linux users to access a folder in NTFS windows partition

prabu@homepc-lm:~$ lsblk -f

NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT

sda

├─sda1 ntfs C Drive 01D5071B18DA9FB0

├─sda2 ntfs BE867B03867ABB89

├─sda3 ntfs 6E8483358482FF39

└─sda4 vfat A2D4-C760 /boot/efi

sdb

├─sdb1 ntfs D Drive 583401D83401BA50

├─sdb2 swap 8627b472-d044-4fd6-a9a8-b6719ea755b4 [SWAP]

├─sdb3 ext4 0a371047-4529-4ff9-b976-e5b6bfa01949 /

└─sdb4 ext4 ec8c96fd-737f-414f-8781-15037760b306 /home

First unmont Fatty using your file manager: right-click:unmount.

Then make a new mount point under/media:

prabu@homepc-lm:~$ sudo mkdir /media/DDrive

Then make the changes in the fstab.

Add the following lines (copy/paste):

UUID=583401D83401BA50 /media/DDrive ntfs-3g defaults,user,rw 0 0

Save and close the file.

prabu@homepc-lm:/$ cat /etc/fstab

devices

UUID=0a371047-4529-4ff9-b976-e5b6bfa01949 / ext4errors=remount-ro 0 1

UUID=A2D4-C760 /boot/efi vfatumask=0077 0 1

UUID=ec8c96fd-737f-414f-8781-15037760b306 /home ext4defaults 0 2

UUID=8627b472-d044-4fd6-a9a8-b6719ea755b4 none swapsw 0 0