Migrating from Windows to Linux. Need guidance on mounting NTFS on Linux

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I’m sure @ChuckPa will hop on to provide some guidance, but in the meantime have a look at their Tips & Tricks article addressing this question:

Linux Tips

Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted drives. By logical extension, any format supported by Linux can be handled using the technique shown here. In all cases, the goal is to give user plex permission to read your media files which Linux doesn’t allow by default due to its strict security model. We will walk through the steps needed …

It doesn’t discuss passing through hard disks to a VM guest, but it does address how to mount foreign disks in Linux using static mounts.