So basically, I have a setup of three separate drives: one that has Manjaro installed on it, one that has Windows on it, and one big HDD (NTFS) that I mostly use to store things like downloads, music, and “not so important” backups of files.
Since I also want to access that drive from Linux, I wonder if I need to set specific permissions via chmod/chown. Is there any consensus on how I should deal with this to avoid problems with access rights, etc. in future?
Ty the first link was pretty useful. Sorry that i didn’t look at it first. I searched but i ddin’t really thought it would be the information i was looking for. To sum it up and from my understanding:
NTFS is a non-POSIX filesystem, so permissions and ownership are only emulated and depend on how these drives are mounted - so from my understanding changing them later on with chmod/chown has no effect.
That is correct, yes. And the same is true for any kind of FAT derivative. 
As another tip, my tutorial mentions the ntfs-3g driver — also used as such as the filesystem type in /etc/fstab — but the default nowadays is ntfs3, which does not work quite as well and can lead to all sorts of problems. So I still recommend using ntfs-3g instead.
I therefore also recommend blacklisting ntfs3, as follows… 
function.echo 'blacklist ntfs3' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/disable-ntfs3.conf
Do however note that this will only take effect after rebooting.
Correct. It only looks that way, and only in Linux.
From my understanding it’s better to use exfat.
Yes, exfat will cause the least amount of trouble.
funny that you just mentioned the problems of ntfs3. Since i just ran into that since i used ntfs3 in the fstab. After using just ntfs which points to ntfs-3g it now works the way i want it. Ty again. Very good guide.
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