Ubuntu – Zeitgeist does not index folders in NTFS partition

The problem could be in corrupted FTS index. See the bug report.

The solution is to remove the index - this shouldn't affect your overall history of activities.

zeitgeist-daemon --quit
rm -rvf ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/
zeitgeist-daemon --replace

(Based on Michal Hruby's solution from the linked bug report.)

In the options column add permissions and auto (and probably user or users)

nls=iso8859-1,permissions,users,auto

• permissions: (NTFS-3G option) Set standard permissions on created files and use standard access control.
• auto: Will be mounted at boot and from mount -a
• user: Allow an ordinary user to mount the filesystem
• users: Allow every user to mount and unmount the filesystem

Then change ownership of the filesystem:

sudo chown -R thomas:thomas /media/data 

My line in /etc/fstab

/dev/sda5 /media/ntfs ntfs-3g users,permissions,auto 0 0

Mount and list permissions

sudo mount /media/ntfs
Using default user mapping

bodhi@ufbt:~$ ls -l /media

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2012-01-04 17:08 ntfs

Change ownership and list new permissions

bodhi@ufbt:~$ sudo chown bodhi:bodhi /media/ntfs

bodhi@ufbt:~$ ls -l /media

drwxr-xr-x 1 bodhi bodhi 4096 2012-01-04 17:10 ntfs

By default, ntfs-3g mounts the partition noexec, nosuid, and nodev.

• noexec: Do not allow direct execution of any binaries on the mounted filesystem.
• nosuid: Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take effect.
• nodev: Do not interpret character or block special devices on the file system.

To override this and allow executing files, use exec

/dev/sda5 /media/ntfs ntfs-3g exec,permissions,auto 0 0

Now we get

bodhi@ufbt:~$ ls -l /media/ntfs

-rwx------ 1 bodhi bodhi 28 2012-01-04 17:16 file

bodhi@ufbt:~$ /media/ntfs/file
It works