Disable of coloring for ls on NTFS filesystems

Question

I like to have the output of ls colored so I quickly can spot files of specific types, however I have a separate disk in my computer which uses a ntfs-3g filesystem, this means that everything has rwxrwxrwx.

Here is the output of ls -l -a in a sample directory with a few files.

ugly directory

As you can see everything is green and blocky and especially the directories look out of place.

I would like for a way to either have coloring from file attributes disabled on ntfs-3g or completely disable coloring on ntfs-3g filesystems.

The difficult part of this is to localize these colorization changes to ntfs-3g file systems.

If it's not possible to localize to ntfs-3g filesystems directly, it would be fine for me to manually specify the path to the mount points.

Entry in for the ntfs filesystem in /etc/fstab

/dev/sdb1 /media/DATA ntfs-3g rw,users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

I'm running debian sid.

THere is a simple method you can apply. `ls -fl` will do what you want. — Valentin Bajrami, Dec 27 '14 at 21:52
@val0x00ff It is ofcourse a solution to pass the f flag, I was however wondering if it was possible to configure this to happen in some file so I don't have to use a flag — Alice Ryhl, Dec 27 '14 at 22:00
Kristoffer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/208345/dircolors-ls-not-being-displayed-correctly-under-ntfs-drive — Valentin Bajrami, Dec 27 '14 at 22:13

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '14 at 17:16

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You could try giving more reasonable permissions:

/dev/sdb1 /media/DATA ntfs-3g rw,users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0

You can have more fine-grained control using fmask and dmask, IIRC, but umask should be enough.

answered Dec 28 '14 at 17:16

muru

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I had the same issue as the OP and this worked well for me. – Jardel Lucca Jul 08 '21 at 02:13

Disable of coloring for ls on NTFS filesystems

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