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    Mounting Problems

    I'm running PopOS and, after a recent clean install, I'm having some problems with a secondary HDD I use for data storage.


    My Partitions

    One disk /dev/*sda1 "data" is a 1Tb hdd NTFS logical partition for Basic Data. It is mounted as /mnt/data

    One disk /dev/sdb1 is a 500Gb ssd with multiple partitions:

    - 1Gb FAT32 /boot/efi /dev/sdb1

    - 17Mb Microsoft reserved thing /dev/sdb2

    - 150Gb NTFS win10 system

    - 4Gb swap /dev/sdb4

    - 105Gb ext4 /home /dev/sdb5

    - 251Gb ext4 / (my popOS root) /dev/sdb7

    - 523Mb Microsoft recovery thing /dev/sdb6

    This way my system and apps are in /.
    My /home is separate and independent.
    And I dump pretty much all my files and downloads in the external drive "data".

    Data is mounted like so:

    UUID=70D48E04D48DCD32
    /mnt/data
    ntfs
    rw,auto,user,exec,noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,x-gvfs-show
    0
    0

    It seems to work ok, except...

    Problems
    First, I can't trash files. I only have the option to permanently delete them (which on my Nautilus is set to NOT be available, btw).

    Second, my browser saves downloads wrong.
    Edge/Opera/Chrome always ask me where to download files even though I set a default directory and toggled off the option to always prompt me for action.
    Looking into it, I noticed that while I set the download directory as /mnt/data/myName/Downloads the browsers interpret it instead as this weird thing /run/user/1000/doc/a0207089/Downloads

    Interestingly, Firefox doesn't show this behavior and does everything as expected.
    I assume the two problems might be related.
    How can I fix them?

    This is my fstab:
    Code:
    PARTUUID=c262783b-5cf0-47cc-aaa2-c1ca59b38cd6  /boot/efi  vfat  umask=0077  0  0
    
    /dev/mapper/cryptswap  none  swap  defaults  0  0
    
    UUID=492f3857-56c4-44a7-ba34-2145fc8c8048  /home  ext4  noatime,errors=remount-ro  0 0
    
    UUID=ba17cb87-0f71-41e2-97a2-4ccc889ead63  /  ext4  noatime,errors=remount-ro  0  1
    
    UUID=70D48E04D48DCD32 /mnt/data ntfs rw,auto,user,exec,noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
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    Re: Mounting Problems

    Generally better to use Linux formats for most Linux data. I typically used a NTFS partition only for some data that I wanted to share.
    Windows now has made used of NTFS more difficult. It uses fast start up which sets hibernation flag. And it turns it back on with updates.
    If hibernation flag seen, Linux NTFS driver will not write into NTFS to prevent loss of data. When Windows restores hibernation, it will not see anything written from Linux.

    Windows turns fast startup back on with updates. And you may not always see Windows update in background.
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...2#post13488472
    https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-o...ndows-11.1212/
    http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html

    Several users have posted suggest parameters for mounting NTFS. no space in async
    nodev,permissions,windows_names,nosuid,noatime,asy nc,big_writes,timeout=2,uid=1000,gid=1000
    https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2467566
    https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....2#post13865822
    Supposedly big-writes always on, now
    https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...s-mount-option

    Mount parameter examples, ext4, NTFS, exFAT:
    https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2464668
    https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2493845
    Last edited by oldfred; February 29th, 2024 at 04:44 PM.
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    Re: Mounting Problems

    Rather than use words, please run commands and post the command + the output here, wrapping the output in code tags as you did for the fstab. This avoids all sorts of issues with words and attempted transcriptions. For mounted storage, this command is best:
    Code:
    df -hT -x squashfs -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs
    For all storage,
    Code:
    lsblk -e 7 -o name,type,fstype,size,FSAVAIL,FSUSE%,label,mountpoint
    Nobody should type those, ever. Create aliases for both.

    First, NTFS should be avoided, unless that specific partition will be physically connected to a MS-Windows computer. For networked access or access to 100% Linux computers, use a native Linux file system like ext4.

    Trash is implemented by the DE and those implementations are far from perfect. I disable them and use daily, versioned, backups, to get any files back, if needed. There is a gap when the files are created until the first backup runs, when if something is corrupted or deleted, then it has to be recreated. Since I seldom use any DE and basically never use a GUI file manager, it really doesn't matter. If you don't use a DE and certain GUI file manager, the Trash location won't be created and may not be possible on foreign disks anyway.

    Assuming this fstab is correct,
    Code:
    UUID=70D48E04D48DCD32 /mnt/data ntfs rw,auto,user,exec,noatime,errors=remount-ro,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
    You are missing the owner, group, and permission masks which are mandatory for foreign file systems like NTFS, exFAT, FAT32 and others.

    Making lots of assumptions, I would suggest this line instead:
    Code:
    UUID=70D48E04D48DCD32    /mnt/data    ntfs    nodev,windows_names,nosuid,noatime,async,big_writes,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0002,dmask=0002    0    0
    Comment out your current line and copy/paste the one provided. Next run
    Code:
    sudo umount  /mnt/data
    sudo mkdir /mnt/data
    sudo mount -a
    Like I said, I made lots of assumptions, mainly about the userid and group. I also added some security protections and performance stuff. If you like, you could add noatime, but I don't bother. NTFS handles mtime, ctime, atime differently.

    I can't help with snap packages. I don't use them. On Ubuntu Firefox and Chromium are snaps unless you go out of your way. I know nothing about PopOS.

    BTW, if you label a partition in the partitioning tool, then you can mount using LABEL= rather than those offensive UUIDs. Best not to have spaces or mixed case in a LABEL to avoid some issues. Additionally, the LABEL will be used if you allow the GUI tools to mount storage. You shouldn't do that for many reasons, but whatever. People do it all the time because convenience overrules security 99% of the time.
    Last edited by TheFu; February 29th, 2024 at 05:55 PM. Reason: fstab line fixed.

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    Re: Mounting Problems

    Fixing the fstab file as you explained has (allegedly) solved whatever problem my Data drive had. It not mounts nicely and the trash bin works

    The browser download location problem still persists

    I'm thinking it's something to do with how the (latest?) chromium browsers work, as it affects Chrome, Edge and Opera... but not Firefox

    Any ideas?
    Things I could do to gather more info?

    I can't help with snap packages. I don't use them. On Ubuntu Firefox and Chromium are snaps unless you go out of your way. I know nothing about PopOS.
    PopOS uses mainly DEBs, as far as I can tell.
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    Re: Mounting Problems

    Quote Originally Posted by Hasimir View Post
    The browser download location problem still persists
    Do you have the affected browsers installed as flatpaks? If so, you could try installing flatseal and explicitly adding Filesystem access to your download folder for each of the browsers.
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    Re: Mounting Problems

    Solved!
    What I found is: my browsers were all installed through the PopOS Shop software manager.
    It supposedly installed them as DEBs (some offer an option to be flatpacks, but I always opt for deb).
    Still, THAT seemed to be the problem, as multiple re-installs fixed nothing.

    So I tried to instead install from an actual DEB file downloaded from the official website... and it fixed the problem. Go figure o_O
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    Re: Mounting Problems

    Ubuntu Software Center seems to prefer snap packages rather than debians. I don't use a GUI for package management, so I don't really know how or if they denote snap vs deb packages. I do know that the firefox and Chromium .deb packages in Ubuntu are just wrappers around the snap package for each. Feels like a bait and switch scam to me.

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