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I have an NTFS formatted USB drive, on this disk I used to backup using rsync and with 12.04 everything worked.
I've done a 12.10 64 bit fresh install, now when I plug the drive and select open with file manager the dribe is mounted as rw------- for my user.
I can create files, I can delete files, but I cannot chown or chmode the files, moreover the rsync saved access rights are completely masked.
What can I do to restore my data with the original access rights and owners?
Sorry if I wasn't clear v2r
There is another box to tick if you click advanced but that is if you have more than 1 NTFS partition but if you only have 1 NTFS partition it should be ticked as default but look anyway just to make sure otherwise there are only 2 boxes to tick.
1 box is called "Enable write support for external devices" and the other box is called "Enable write support for internal devices" so depending if your NTFS drive is internal or external tick the relevant box.
Sorry I can't give you screenshots not enough rep points yet but I'll replace the url typed at the bottom with a screenshot as soon as I have enough points it will have an example of NTFS Configuration Tool or type NTFS Configuration Tool in Google image search.
Edit: This method worked for me.
Open up Ubuntu Software Centre and type NTFS and install NTFS Configuration Tool (it should be the first one in the list of results). Once installed run NTFS Configuration Tool and tick both boxes and now you should have full access to to your drive.
Best Answer
There are two things you usually need to do with NTFS drives (although I haven't installed 12.10, so haven't checked that version).
The mounting options must be correct for what you want to do. I always specifically mount my drives using
/etc/fstab, and specify where and how it gets mounted. The flags that are important are the dmask and fmask, and setting the uid and gid. I am the only user, so I set the uid and gid to my user name, the dmask to 002, and the fmask to 113.You need to set the owner of the directory where the partition is mounted, which will be remembered next time. You can do this before mounting the drive.