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Permission Control for NTFS We often encounter the problem that to mount NTFS under Linux means no permission control. But that is not true. According to JanC's Answer on AskUbuntu: Contrary to what most people believe, NTFS is a POSIX-compatible filesystem, and it is possible to use permission on NTFS. The First Trial First let's just open /etc/fstab and see how partitions are mounted. $ sudo nano /etc/fstab In my situation, the NTFS partitions are mounted as followed: /dev/sda1 /mnt/NTFS1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/NTFS2 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 The nosuid keyword prevents setting uid on filesystem. So the First step is to remove this keyword. However, once this keyword is removed, an uid and a gid must be given to setup the permission control. By default, the current uid and the current gid will be used. We can also specifiy