Unable to mount fat or ntfs drives after updating

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This problem of failing to mount NTFS started with kernel 6.8, and according to Arch wiki, ntfs3 requires the file system type to mount.

So in /etc/fstab I simply changed type from auto to ntfs3 and all my NTFS partitions auto-mounted at boot,

Changed

/dev/disk/by-uuid/0A36AFE336AFCE4F /mnt/0A36AFE336AFCE4F auto defaults,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=C 0 0

to

/dev/disk/by-uuid/0A36AFE336AFCE4F /mnt/0A36AFE336AFCE4F ntfs3 defaults,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=C 0 0

but I don’t know how to handle external NTFS pluggable USBs.

I tried adding udev rule to set ntfs3 as the default driver but it doesn’t work.

And because Kernel 6.9 will completely remove ntfs-3g, it needs adjusting many things to adopt the new modifications.

Edit:
Even some apps like KDE Partition Manager and Gnome Disks fail to mount an unmounted NTFS partition with kernel 6.8.

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