[ARCH] auto mounting NTFS drives

arch_auto_mount_ntfs

>> set up mount point

sudo mkdir /mnt/2tb

>> list drives

sudo fdisk -l

>> install ntfs-3g

sudo pacman -Syu ntfs-3g

>> mount

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/2tb

>> list all disks by uuid name

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

>> fstab auto mount

sudo vim /etc/fstab


UUID="9460234760233002" /mnt/2tb        ntfs-3g defaults,nofail,rw,big_write      0       2
UUID="C8DAE4A8DAE4944A" /mnt/320gb      ntfs-3g defaults,nofail,rw,big_write      0       2


!! NOTE: make sure it's ntfs-3g otherwise the system's ntfs implementation will eat up all ur cpus !!
!! NOTE: make sure use big_write as a work-around for slow writing + high cpu issue !!
!! NOTE: NTFS sucks, consider using ext4 since samba doesn't really care what FS it's using !!