Ubuntu 22.04, dual booting with Windows 10 with a shared NTFS drive for data storage. Using Dolphin as my default file manager.
A long journey down the rabbit hole into fine tuning the mounting options for my shared partition (for reasons that are beyond the scope of this posting) has culminated in manually setting up my mounting configuration for my NTFS partition (/dev/sda2) in /etc/fstab (with auto option for auto mounting on startup).
After switching from the default "stock" mounting procedure to my customized one, I noticed that Dolphin had stopped showing folder previews within the shared NTFS partition. A quick search led to an easy fix for that issue: substitute the FUSE based ntfs-3g mounter with the native ntfs3 one. That worked (after dropping nls=utf8 from my fstab entry) and I got my folder previews back in Dolphin after a hot unmount/mount sequence.
However, after rebooting, I lose folder previews again. Unmounting and remounting fixes the problem, which leads me to the following questions:
- Is the boot/startup mounting procedure cached?
- Is it possible that the startup mounting of my NTFS partition is still using
ntfs-3g? - How can I force startup mounting to abide by the
fstabconfiguration?
My fstab line:
UUID=xyz /media/me/DATA ntfs3 rw,auto,users,exec,umask=000,dmask=027,fmask=137,gid=1000,uid=1000,windows_names 0 0