Trashcan support on NTFS volumes

To enable Trashcan support on an NTFS partition you need to associate a user-id with the partition.

Modify fstab

Associating a user-id with a partition can be done with an entry in the /etc/fstab file. You also need the drive's UUID, system's main user-id usually is 1000. The trash will be stored in a per-user folder on the drive /.Trash-<USER-ID>/

Show your user-id:

id -u

Show your group-id:

id -g

To find the correct drive-UUID:

sudo blkid

Returns:

...
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Ubuntu" UUID="12312312312312312" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Data" UUID="45645645645645645" TYPE="ntfs" 
...

Edit fstab:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add or edit the following line to include uid=1000:

...
UUID=45645645645645645  /media/DATA  ntfs-3g  defaults,umask=077,fmask=177,uid=1000,gid=1000,noatime  0  0
...

The partition will be mounted after you start your machine. If you don't want automatic mount you should add 'noauto':

...
UUID=45645645645645645  /media/DATA  ntfs-3g  defaults,umask=077,fmask=177,uid=1000,gid=1000,noauto,noatime  0  0
...

Now remount the partitions:

sudo umount -a
sudo mount -a

In this example the Trash can will be located in /media/DATA/.Trash-1000/.

Mount manually

You can also use the same options when manually mounting:

sudo mkdir /media/DATA
sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/DATA -o defaults,umask=077,fmask=177,uid=1000,gid=1000,noatime

Other settings explained

Header text	Header text
/media/DATA	mount point
ntfs-3g	volume type
uid=1000	user-id 1000, check yours with 'id -u'
gid=1000	group-id 1000, check yours with 'id -g'
umask=077	causes files to be accessible only to you, not other users
fmask=177	makes files non-executable
noatime	do not store accesstimes, advisable on SSD drives
user,noauto	if you want user-mounting, not automatic
exec	user implies noexec, add this if you still want to execute things