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smartwing

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Registered: 2015-04-16

Posts: 7

Pcmanfm-qt ntfs-3g

Hi everyone,

I have a question regarding the automounting of external HDDs using PCmanfm. It works fine if the HDD is not formatted using ntfs unfortunately if it is, it is only mounted read only. I can manually remount the HDD using:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /run/media/jscheller/JsPers -o rw,users,auto

How can I modify the automount properties of Pcmanfm in order to account for NTFS external file systems?
Thanks a lot in advance and best regards,

Smartwing

zer0rest

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 5

Re: Pcmanfm-qt ntfs-3g

Can you confirm that you have the

ntfs-3g

package installed?

x33a

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Pcmanfm-qt ntfs-3g

@ zer0rest, if OP didn't have ntfs-3g installed, then wouldn't the mount command he/she posted result in an error?

smartwing

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Registered: 2015-04-16

Posts: 7

Re: Pcmanfm-qt ntfs-3g

I do have ntfs-3g installed. I am able to mount the drive manually but I would like pcmanfm to replicate the same behavior in its automount which for the moment only mounts readable not writeable.

Thanks a lot for the help!

madjock

Member

Registered: 2014-10-27

Posts: 13

Re: Pcmanfm-qt ntfs-3g

If it is any help.

The best thing I have for automounting NTFS external, and internal drives is NTFS-CONFIG, it is in AUR.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ntfs-config/

It writes all the mounts in FSTAB for you, lazy but nice. And gives you the read/write options as well.