symlink issue on NTFS

when you have a partition which is NTFS filesystem type you may encounter errors when trying to create symlinks . to avoid this problem and fix the issue you may want to do these steps . by default , the linux kernel mounts partitions using ntfs3 driver . but you can use ntfs-3g driver which is a more mature driver to mount these type of file systems .

find the partition UUID :

sudo blkid

it is sth like this :

/dev/nvme0n1p5 UUID="XXXX-YYYY" TYPE="ntfs"

make a note of UUID .

edit the /etc/fstab

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
sudo nano /etc/fstab

add the following to the /etc/fstab file :

change the E_DRIVE path with your path , and uuid with your uuid .

UUID=XXXX-YYYY  /media/mahdi/E_DRIVE  ntfs-3g  uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022,permissions  0  0

then mount the partition with your gui in this case gnome .