Hi Lukáš,
On 6/1/22 19:25, Lukáš Krejza wrote:
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.
Having a look to [1], I see that "ntfs-3g" is already suggested there.
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).
I am not sure who maintains that documentation. I would suggest you to
ask to [email protected].
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.
Interesting. We will revisit the details about how YaST manages NTFS
file systems. Thanks!
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?
No plans yet, but maybe we will improve this after checking its current
state.
2) Why the wiki officially recommends editing fstab manually, when it was always
been discuragued in favour of yast partitioner
No idea about the wiki, to be honest.
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?
I personally think YaST should be able to flawlessly manage this use
case. As said, we will check this.
Regards,
Iván
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José Iván López González
YaST Team at SUSE LINUX GmbH
IRC: jilopez
