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Mounting NTFS partitions

If you are using NTFS then you need to be able to write to these partitions so go ahead and install ntfs-3g package from official Arch repositories:

# pacman -S ntfs-3g

Run lsblk command to find the NTFS partitions. It would be something like /dev/sdXY. Here X could be a,b,c,d,e, ect. and Y would be a number. For example in my case it was /dev/sdf1.

Now we will simply edit fstab to add entries about these partitions so they will mount at boot and you won’t have to worry about broken syslinks or shortcuts. open fstab with nano

# nano /etc/fstab

and then add these lines (after the existing lines):

/dev/sdXY  /mnt/windows  ntfs-3g   defaults          0       0

Here you can choose different names for each partition instead of ‘windows'; if you have more than one NTFS partition your fstabl entries could be something like this:

/dev/sde2  /mnt/movies  ntfs-3g   defaults          0       0
/dev/sdf2  /mnt/data  ntfs-3g   defaults          0       0

As you can see ‘windows’ can be replaced with any lable of your choice. It should be lower case without any special characters.