Hello List, recently, i tried to mount a NTFS partition using yast read-write. I checked wiki [1] which states, that "Reading and writing to NTFS partitions is supported by default through the ntfs-3g driver, but NTFS partitions are not automatically mounted." which gives impression, that changing to ntfs-3g is everything you need. For that, you need to manually modify fstab by changing driver from ntfs to ntfs-3g. However, that is not enough to get NTFS writable. You also need to add options (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=<here your uid>,group_id=<here your gid>) - or similar. None of this is also documented (or i may have been looking on the wrong places). Second issue i got into was, that when you set the options in yast partitioner after changing fstab manually, the drive gets mounted by fuse, again without read-write support. I had to su and remount the partition manually, after which it worked.
My questions are: 1) Is there any planned improvement in mounting NTFS read-write and supporting ntfs-3g directly by yast instead of using fuse? Possibly by respecting driver specified in fstab? 2) Why the wiki officially recommends editing fstab manually, when it was always been discuragued in favour of yast partitioner 3) Could that be improved for examply in some checkbox [x] Read-write support and selecting user for mounting it from a drop-down menu in yast partitioner? And/or selecting proper driver (ntfs, ntfs-3g, fuse) in partitioner via GUI? 4) Could the wiki be at least updated to reflect current situation and what needs to be really done to mount it read-write? 5) Is there anything i missed and does really Yast still not support the mounting of NTFS read-write? [1] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NTFS Thanks. Regards, Gryffus
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