#Mount ntfs ubuntu windows 8#

Make sure you tripple check the >, if you place one > you overwrite your fstab! sudo blkid > /etc/fstab Make a back-up of your fstab file: sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig I fixed the problem by mounting them by UUID in the fstab, you can view the UUID for your harddrives by entering: sudo blkid

I had some trouble with this because when I reboot the disk name changes.

You can disable fast startup by following these steps under 'Power Options'.

#Mount ntfs ubuntu windows 8#

This is because Windows 8 and 10 offer a 'Fast Startup' option that depends on a 'non-complete' shutdown. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.ДЇailed to mount '/dev/sda6': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. If you get no visible error after rebooting and partitions stay readonly or you get an error similar to: Error mounting /dev/sda6 at /media/WindowsDrive:Д¬ommand-line `mount -t 'ntfs' -o 'uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177' '/dev/sda6' '/media/rolindroy/Media Center'' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Here are two lines from my /etc/fstab working UUID=EEA2B69CA2B668AB /WIN_C ntfs-3g defaults,nls=utf8,umask=000,dmask=027,fmask=137,uid=1000,gid=1000,windows_names 0 0 This sets you as the owner of the drive, and sets the permissions to drwxr-x. These values are both usually 1000.ДЄ common set of mount options for ntfs is uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=027,fmask=137. You can find your UID with the command id -u. To set the owner, use the uid and gid options for user and group, respectively. For example, rwx for the owner and rx for others is 022 rather than 755. Since these options set masks, they should be the complement of the permissions you want. dmask controls permissions for directories, fmask controls permissions for files, and umask controls both. Permissions for ntfs and vfat file systems must be set with the dmask, fmask and umask options.