Second NTFS drive keeps mounting as root if i mount it to /mnt/

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Audio:
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Drives:
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  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: RBU-SNS8152S3256GG5
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Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 229.37 GiB size: 229.37 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 181.29 GiB (79.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
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  ID-3: /home raw-size: 229.37 GiB size: 229.37 GiB (100.00%)
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  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 229.37 GiB size: 229.37 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 181.29 GiB (79.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 229.37 GiB size: 229.37 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 181.29 GiB (79.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
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    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
  ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 7.68 GiB used: 2.8 MiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
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  inxi: 3.3.12
Garuda:
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  Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected

The automount mounts my drive to:
/run/media/[username]/[drive]
but several programs like wine have a problem with this, for example if i wanted to make a wineprefix it would throw a million errors, not related to it being on an on a separate drive but because its mounted in the weird path. Im trying to mounft in to:
/mnt/[drive]
automatically with fstab or manually but i cannot change the ownership to my user from root..
I know that NTFS does not have permission management and thats why its getting mounted as root, and cannot be changed to my user with chmod.

I need help with this, its tiring, thank you.

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The options on how an NTFS drive is mounted with user permissions must be specified in the options you add to /etc/fstab.

Read the Arch wiki's entries that pertain to fstab.

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Yes, ive done that, this is what my fstab line looks for the drive im trying to mount, the drive is not external:
UUID=1C6E65DE6E65B0E6 /mnt/2SSD ntfs rw,nosuid,nodev,user_id=1000,group_id=1000,allow_other,user,blksize=4096 0 0

i cant see what im doing wrong..

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Your formatting is incorrect, see my example below:

UUID=7C1A71921A714A62 /mnt/7C1A71921A714A62 ntfs-3g nofail,noatime,rw,user,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=022,fmask=133,windows_names,auto 0 0

Obviously, you need to substitute your drives UUID in my example.

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Oh boy your right, it works now, thanks a lot, im gonna need to go over fstab one more time haha

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Also, if you're running a linux kernel v5.15+ then 'native' ntfs support is built-in to the kernel. I switched my mount from ntfs-3g in /etc/fstab to ntfs3. So, now, this is what my entry looks like:

UUID=[UUID OF HD]          /mnt/ntfs          ntfs3          rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,nohidden,sys_immutable,acl,uhelper=udisks2,umask=0022,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,user 0 0

ymmv

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Good point, that was from an old NTFS load line of mine. I haven't used an NTFS drive in ages so things change.

Thanks.

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