How many can you find?
One fstab to rule them all. 
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https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Fstab
This is a file for the system, there is no per kernel configuration so think about it if you want to use this driver, before switching to kernel which don’t have support for it.
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I don’t understand it either. I waited until the kernel 5.15 is officially out on Manjaro.
Still there is no NTFS3
Still everything maps to the old NTFS3-G and I don’t see any NTFS driver in the kernel space either.
l /sbin/mount.ntfs*
Permissions Size User Group Date Modified Name
lrwxrwxrwx 16 root root 2 Sep 19:34 /sbin/mount.ntfs -> /usr/bin/ntfs-3g*
lrwxrwxrwx 16 root root 2 Sep 19:34 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g -> /usr/bin/ntfs-3g*
l /lib/modules/5.15.1-1-MANJARO/kernel/fs/
Permissions Size User Group Date Modified Name
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 9p/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 affs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 afs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 befs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 btrfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 cachefiles/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 ceph/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 cifs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 coda/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 cramfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 dlm/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 ecryptfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 erofs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 exfat/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 ext4/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 f2fs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 fat/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 fscache/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 fuse/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 gfs2/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 hfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 hfsplus/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 isofs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 jbd2/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 jffs2/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 jfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 lockd/
.rw-r--r-- 5,3k root root 6 Nov 15:10 mbcache.ko.xz
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 minix/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 netfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 nfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 nfs_common/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 nfsd/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 nilfs2/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 nls/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 ocfs2/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 omfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 orangefs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 overlayfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 pstore/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 quota/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 reiserfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 romfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 smbfs_common/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 squashfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 ubifs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 udf/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 ufs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 vboxsf/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 xfs/
drwxr-xr-x - root root 9 Nov 09:38 zonefs/
How can I activate it now?
See
Build your own kernel where the driver is activated or wait until Manjaro Team does it in 5.15 or later series.
Another option is detailed here:
Yes, I checked the compilation profile of the kernel. I found that the NTFS3 component is not included in the 5.15 kernel of Manjaro.
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Quick question, if I have my drives set to auto, will they automatically use NTFS3 when it is released on the new kernal? Thanks.
I doubt so. You’ll need a rule to mount drives with ntfs3, check the second step here:
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For info on my side, now that kernel 5.15.2 has landed on Testing branch with support for ntfs3, I changed my previous fstab for new ntfs3 type, and it works as intended so far.
Before (just an example for the NTFS partition part):
UUID=A1B2C3E4F5G6H7 /path/to/mount1 ntfs-3g defaults,big_writes,windows_names 0 0
UUID=7H6G5F4E3C2B1A /path/to/mount2 ntfs-3g defaults,big_writes,windows_names,noauto 0 0
Now
UUID=A1B2C3E4F5G6H7 /path/to/mount1 ntfs3 defaults,noatime,uid=omano,gid=omano 0 0
UUID=7H6G5F4E3C2B1A /path/to/mount2 ntfs3 defaults,noatime,uid=omano,gid=omano,noauto 0 0
Fore reference, as usual, the documentation linux-ntfs3/ntfs3.rst at master · Paragon-Software-Group/linux-ntfs3 · GitHub
ntfs3 support all the standard options, and the ones listed in documentation (for instance it wouldn’t mount with big_writes and windows_names options).
I had to specify the uid and gid or else I wouldn’t own the partitions and content. Before I just needed to own the mount point with ntfs-3g. Maybe there is a better way but I didn’t find issue so far doing so.
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Wow that was quick. I checked a couple of hours ago and nothing to update.
@Yochanan just checked and still no update. Is this for stable or how does it work? Is 5.15.2 stable or depends which mirror do I sync from?
$ sudo pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 170.3 KiB 452 KiB/s 00:00 [#############################################################] 100%
extra 1900.2 KiB 2.60 MiB/s 00:01 [#############################################################] 100%
community 6.8 MiB 5.05 MiB/s 00:01 [#############################################################] 100%
multilib 175.2 KiB 2.06 MiB/s 00:00 [#############################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
$ pamac update
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.
@Yochanan Yes I did it’s in Stable with 5.15.rc3.210926.g5816b3e-1 but doesn’t appear the update to me.
Edit: Do I have to switch to Testing branch?
5.15.rc3.210926.g5816b3e-1 ≠ 5.15.2-2
Ok thanks. Happens that I’m on stable (I think it’s the default setting for a fresh Manjaro install). So I followed this guide and switched to testing: