Earlier tonight I realized that my main/boot partition (sda5) ran out of space. So, I moved the data on sda6 temporarily and deleted the sda6 partition to make room for sda5 to expand. I expanded sda5 with gparted and then created sda6 as NTFS using "Disks" which comes stock with Linux Mint. Then, I re-created a smaller sda6 and updated grub and fstab, though not correctly at first. I managed to get back into my system after a while (booting from and into sda5).

But then, I downloaded hplip stuff to my NTFS partition on sda6 which is mounted to /data.

And realized I was having weirdness.
(Using Linux Mint 21 if you care.)

Problem is, the permissions are all messed up--and for sub-directories as well. I'd like this to always be available to my normal permissions user "wmeler." I am the only person using this laptop. I want it as NTFS so I can access the directory in Windows as this is a Dual Boot laptop.

Here's what the permissions look like:

wmeler@wander:/$ ls -al /data
total 9
drwxrwx--- 1 root plugdev 4096 Dec 2 22:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Dec 2 22:43 ..
drwxrwx--- 1 root plugdev 512 Dec 2 23:25 downloads


Here's a bit more on how the partition is being mounted in case it matters:

wmeler@wander:/etc/default$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Windows" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="B0FC6032FC5FF0D8" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="d4f04c7f-02"
/dev/sda5: UUID="bb9e4ab8-b91b-4bd9-8198-6015ab08c02e" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="d4f04c7f-05"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="HP_RECOVERY" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="A6CE00F0CE00BA97" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="d4f04c7f-03"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="SYSTEM" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="7CB2E8C8B2E887CA" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="d4f04c7f-01"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="DATA" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="06EA83ED2E587A8B" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="d4f04c7f-06"



wmeler@wander:/etc$ cat fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=bb9e4ab8-b91b-4bd9-8198-6015ab08c02e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /data was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=06EA83ED2E587A8B /data ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
# /windows was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=B0FC6032FC5FF0D8 /windows ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0

that is the umask I think. Why do you use ntfs on a linux at all?

Standard Linux permissions (rwx) aren't used on windows or systems and accessing depends upon what you have in the /etc/fstab file using umask, fmask, dmask. The link below gives a detailed explanation of it. I would also suggest that you not auto-mount the windows system partition as there is not reason to modify system files from Linux and can create problems. If you scroll down the page, there is a section on allowing a user to mount.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTF...fault_settings

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Thanks for the replies.

Found a solution here in case anyone else is having problems too:


https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...65454#p2265454

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That would be my question too. Use a 'linux' compatible file system like ext4 (usually the default format). The only time I use ntfs is on 'external' drives which I know 'may' be plugged in at some point to a Windows machine. Otherwise just format ext4 and go.