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 wond…

[image] [Tutorial] Working with additional 'drives' Tutorials Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ 1. INTRODUCTION Microsoft Windows started its life as a graphical user interface on top of MS-DOS, a 16-bit single-user, single-tasking operating system that in turn originated as…

Hi @Maracuja , I believe this is what you’re looking for: [image] [root tip] [How To] Share and Access NTFS devices using Samba Tutorials Linux, Samba and NTFS Documenting how to handle NTFS formatted devices shared using Samba warning This example defines a…

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 t…

[image] Maracuja: 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…

Correct. It only looks that way, and only in Linux. From my understanding it’s better to use exfat.

[image] Mirdarthos: From my understanding it’s better to use exfat. Yes, exfat will cause the least amount of trouble. :wink:

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.

How "should" i deal with a shared NTFS drive?

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