Automatically mount NTFS volumes as read-only

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Get NTFS volume UUID 

lsblk -f

sudo mkdir /var/mnt/whatever
sudo vim /etc/fstab

UUID=NTFS_UUID_GOES_HERE /var/mnt/whatever ntfs defaults,ro,nofail 0 0

If the drive is a dynamic mirror you need to use ldmtool instead, see Using ldmtool to mount NTFS dynamic mirror

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