NTFS hd as write/read problem

Question

I'm new to the world of Linux, but so far I'm loving it. Sadly, I'm having some problems right now. I have Ubuntu installed on an SSD an two NTFS HD's connected to my machine. One HD is a 1TB unit with files only. The other is a 2TB with Windows 10 installed. I edited fstab so this units would automount but I'm only able to read files from them. I need to also be able to write. I tried purging ntfs-3g and installing it again as some posts recommended, but no success. I also disabled fast boot on Windows.

Thanks for the help.

Here is a copy of my fstab:

UUID=5f3b36b3-3273-4097-95bb-a831c8cd9178 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0

UUID=CC7452B174529E50 /home/marcus/Storage ntfs-3g rw,user,exec 0 0
UUID=AE30231E3022ED51 /home/marcus/Windows ntfs-3g rw,user,exec 0 0

Answer 1

Try to check the permissions of the directory and see if you are the owner. That is probably the issue.

You may be just not the owner of the files, and just need to run :

sudo chown -R user:group /home/marcus/{Storage,Windows} 

replace the user:group with yours.

Even if you are the owner, you may still not have the executing permissions on ntfs, which is necessary for editing files within a directory.

First, use the uid option instead of user. Then use the umask option to set the default permissions.

I use the following to mount my data(music and stuff) partition which takes care of most of the permissions stuff.

/dev/sda5   /mnt/extra  ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022    0   0

But you cannot change the permissions within the partitions though. So, make sure that you don't have any executable scripts that you don't intend to execute.

Sorry, for the bad formatting of the answer. I am still new to this answer writing thing.