What is overriding the fstab permissions mounting option?

Question

fstab:

LABEL="Shared" /home/howard/Shared/ ntfs permissions,rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=howard,gid=howard,allow_other,noatime,fmask=033,dmask=022 0 2

Mount with:

mount LABEL="Shared"

mount reports:

/dev/sda3 on /home/howard/Shared type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)

Note "permissions" option was not honored, and instead "default_permissions" appears. (Also blksize=4096 is being added without my request.) Why does the "permissions" option get changed to "default_permissions"?

I've tried both ntfs and ntfs-3g mount types. They both return with a "fuseblk" mount type.

The permissions option allows each file's owner, group, and ugo_rwx permissions to be set independently. With default_permissions you can only set these one time for all files in the filesystem, and you can't individual set each file's user, group and permissions.

Debian 8.5, Cinnamon 2.2.16, Linux Kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64

Answer 1

The permissions option is ignored and automatically changed to default_permissions whenever any of the following options is also included with it:

uid, gid, umask, dmask, or fmask

To help fix this you can use user_id and group_id in place of uid and gid.

But you must not use umask, dmask or fmask with permissions.

You'll know it's working when you get the following status from mount:

Using default user mapping

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Note that initially all files are owned by root. You might want to change them recursively to be owned by you.