| Options |
Expected behavior |
| iocharset |
-o iocharset={NAME}
The NTFS file system stores all file/directory names in Unicode format which can represent any
character from any language. By default, the NTFS for Linux driver converts these names to ASCII
which is compatible with English filenames only. It follows that letters like a or ? will be shown
incorrectly.
For this purpose you can choose either utf8 that can represent all characters (like Unicode), or your
own codepage, e.g. gb2312 (Simplified Chinese), iso8859-1 (Western Europe), iso8859-2 (Central Europe),
iso8859-8 (Hebrew). |
| quiet |
-o quiet
No errors appear after invoking chmods/chowns functions if a NTFS partition is mounted using this
parameter. After invoking chmods/chowns functions nothing will be changed too. |
| nocase |
-o nocase
All files and directories are written with case insensitive but case preserved. |
| showmeta |
-o showmeta
Use this parameter to show all meta-files (System Files) on a mounted NTFS partition. By default,
all meta-files are hidden. |
| noatime |
-o noatime
All files and directories will not update their last access time attribute if a NTFS partition is mounted
with this parameter.
Note: If this parameter is not set the last access time attribute will be changed until remounting the partition.
After remounting the partition, the attribute will take the value before mounting. |
| uid |
-o uid={USERID}
By default all files on a mounted NTFS volume will be owned by root. By specifying the uid parameter you can
set the owner of the files. The userid can be any name from /etc/passwd, or any number representing a user id. |
| gid |
-o gid={GROUPID}
By default all the files on a mounted NTFS volume will have a group owner of root. By specifying the gid parameter
you can set the group of the files. The groupid can be any name from /etc/group, or any number representing a group id. |
fmask
dmask |
-o fmask={VALUE}
-o dmask={VALUE}
The umask parameter changes the permissions for files and directories. fmask works on files and dmask works on directories
in the same way. The effect of the options can be combined too. |
| umask |
-o umask={VALUE}
The default permissions given to a mounted NTFS volume are rwx------ (for security reasons). The umask parameter controls
these permissions for files/directories.
mount –t ufsd /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs_0 –o umask=0222 |
For example, to mount NTFS partition with full read/write access
rights, please use the following command: