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Hi there I have an ntfs partition which is mounted automatically on ubuntu's startup.

In qBittorrent I have the default download folder is that ntfs partition, but after I mount the partition automatically, I always have this message when I run qBittorrent :

An I/O error occured for torrent XXX Error: permission denied.

I tried to unmount the ntfs partition but I get that the authentication is required to unmount it, so I think the partition is mounted by the root user.

In the /etc/fstab file, this is the line which auto-mount the ntfs partition :

UUID=32EA23CFEA238DE3 /media/Backup ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000    0   0

So, I think if the partition was mounted as me, I won't see this error message.

In the other hand, I tried to run qBittorrent as the root user, but I'm not seeing any of my downloads in the it.

how can I solve this problem ?

Croviajo
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You are using the wrong options for your ntfs partition in /etc/fstab Some of the options you use, such as "rw" and "exec" are invalid when mounting a ntfs partition.

If you read the man page for mount you will see the options.

I know it is a long page, scroll down to the ntfs section.

You want to mount the ntfs partition with ntfs-3g, not ntfs (see here).

The options for ntfs (ntfs-3g) are here. I suggest you use

UUID=32EA23CFEA238DE3 /media/Backup ntfs-3g auto,users,permissions,nls=utf8  0 0

you can then set ownership and permissions using chown and chmod

If that does not work, you can set ownership and permissions

UUID=32EA23CFEA238DE3 /media/Backup ntfs auto,users,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000 0 0
Panther
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