• KDE in Trixie: Dolphin configuration to mount NTFS partition missing

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Marco_M=C3=B6ller?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 11 17:40:01 2025
    The file browser app Dolphin in KDE of Debian Trixie cannot mount out-of-the-box a NTFS partition because a configuration seems to be missing.

    I think I found the missing part of the configuration in this comment of
    this bug report:
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445468#c11

    I followed it:

    sudo cp /etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf.example \
    /etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf
    sudo nano /etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf

    placing in the file the mentioned lines:

    [defaults]
    ntfs:ntfs3_defaults=uid=$UID,gid=$GID ntfs:ntfs3_allow=uid=$UID,gid=$GID,umask,dmask,fmask,iocharset,discard,nodiscard,sparse,nosparse,hidden,nohidden,sys_immutable,nosys_immutable,showmeta,noshowmeta,prealloc,noprealloc,hide_dot_files,nohide_dot_files,windows_names,nocase,case
    ntfs_drivers=ntfs

    These steps appear to have solved that Dolphin : NTFS issue also for me.

    Besides not feeling fine if this solution is indeed a valid, maybe even
    the recommended solution for Trixie and thus won't break things
    somewhere else - which I do not know about, I urgently recommend to have
    this, or whatever else might be recommended, configured by default after
    a KDE desktop installation to Debian!

    Best wishes, and thanks a lot for KDE and for Debian!
    Marco

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