Impossible to give "write" permission on a sub folder

MuadDibIII · 11-26-2021, 03:09 AM

Hello to all,

I have a dual boot PC with Windows 10 and Debian 11

This PC has 2 drives, one SSD that has both operating systems and a HDD where I store all other files (documents, music, images, ...)

The goal is to share this HDD between Windows and Debian. To do it, I added the following line to the fstab file:

Code:

UUID=ACB23705B236D414   /mnt/windows    ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000    0   0

the folders lount without any problem to /mnt/windows, all with the correct permission settings (rwx) :

Code:

$ ls -l /mnt/windows/
total 80
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 14 nov. 20:20 '$RECYCLE.BIN'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 24 nov. 15:59 CloudStation
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 21 nov. 11:44 Documents
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 25 juin 08:15 DumpStack.log.tmp
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 22 nov. 20:41 Images
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 24 nov. 11:53 Music
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 23 nov. 06:21 'System Volume Information'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40960 21 nov. 22:22 Downloads
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 21 nov. 19:44 Videos

My problem is that in some sub folders, I'm not getting the write ("w") permission. For example on the "Documents" one:

Code:

$ ls -l /mnt/windows/Documents/
total 117
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 24 nov. 15:59 User1
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 26 nov. 2020 Default.rdp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 432 11 mars 2021 desktop.ini
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40960 24 nov. 15:59 User2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16384 24 nov. 16:00 Public
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 24 nov. 15:59 User3
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 20480 21 nov. 12:05 Scan
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18432 4 déc. 2016 Thumbs.db
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 16 nov. 23:13 'Unified Remote'

Most of the folders are OK, but I ave User2 and Scan that doesn't have the write ("w") permission...

Do you have any idea on whats going on?

Thanks in advance for all the help,

Berst regards,
Marc

frankbell · 11-26-2021, 07:08 PM

Try adding "user" to the fstab line.

See about halfway down in this tutorial, under the heading, "The Scarier Stuff": https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3812...-does-it-work/

yancek · 11-27-2021, 05:23 AM

You need to familiarize yourself with the options for writing to ntfs from Linux, using umask, dmask and fmask. See the link below for details.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/4298...-mount-options

MuadDibIII · 11-30-2021, 08:44 AM

Hello and thanks for the answers (also sorry for the delay, work issues).

I've tried to change the mounting options on my fstab, but none of them work. What bother me with the mounting options is that all other folders end with the correct write permission, only 2 that breaks for some reason...