How to mount an NTFS filesystem, allowing all users full access?

How could I mount an NTFS filesystem in a way that would allow all users full access to it? If I use sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/drive, then only the root user can use it. It won't let me change the permissions/ownership on files after it's mounted (although folders are ok), which is really annoying.

2 Answers

From man mount:

Mount options for ntfs

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uid=value, gid=value and umask=value

Set the file permission on the filesystem. The umask value is given in octal. By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else.

So you should be able to do what you're after with something like

mount -t ntfs -o umask=000 /dev/sda1 /media/drive

which should give everyone read and write permissions on the volume.

I am not sure, perhaps you need the allow_other option?

mount -t ntfs -o umask=000,allow_other /dev/sda1 /media/drive