Questions tagged [read-only]
Questions related to read-only devices or permissions.
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External hard drive that always used to mount read-write when plugged in now mounts read-only
I have an external hard drive that I use for backing up data. I bought and configured it several years ago, and since then it has always mounted read-write whenever I plug it in. Recently, though, ...
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Can't run apt commands: permissions fun with /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
Today I tried running sudo apt-get update on our Ubuntu 22.04 server and got the following:
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Err:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy ...
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How to read and write inside mounted vendor.img
I need help with editing vendor.img.
I had a problem where if I mounted vendor.img, it's just read-only, I tried to edit permission via file manager's properties tab, but that don't work. Is there any ...
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Want to format UDF Usb Readonly drive to NTFS
new here. I have a usb of 32gb which I got form a course I enrolled. Now I want to format the usb and use it for my personal use but I cannot format it. Can anyone help or should I just throw it?
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Unable to modify files in root even after booting it up as admin
I'm trying to copy+paste a plugin for OBS under /snap/obs-studio/1284/usr/lib. It's located in root. The paste option is grayed out doing:
sudo su
nautilus
leads to me opening it as admin:///snap/obs-...
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Renaming Files on NTFS drive via File Explorer lead to Input/Output Error in Directory
Working on a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on hardware that was a mid-tier gaming PC when custom built about 12 years ago. 2 hard drives, primary was reformatted with 4 partitions: swap, boot, OS, ...
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Turn off read-only pen drive
I'm trying to format a 64gb pen drive that turned readonly after failing to move a larger video file using gparted but it keeps failing due to the pen drive being in readonly. (just installed Ubuntu ...
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My laptop keeps crashing whenever I leave sleep mode
Whenever my laptop enters sleep mode and I want to use it again my system crashes after about 20 seconds.
When I enter my password and try using my system after leaving sleep mode I loose all of the ...
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Stuck in read-only mode
I am new to Linux so please bear with me.
I run Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-155-generic x86_64) on a partition of my hard drive. Multiple things happened :
I filled up that partition while ...
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Make a partition read-only, and revert it
Is there a way to flag a partition in a disk (internal, for the case in point, although I doubt this is relevant) to be read-only?
I mean to do it from within Ubuntu (that's why I posted here). I ...
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Read only /root folder
Can a user have read-only access to the /root folder?
For example, only in the .bash_history file.
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KPL-W0X keyboard backlight, editing read-only file to toggle power?
Im going to try to be as thorough as possible here, please bare with.
So I own a Huawai laptop (Model:KPL-W0X), and I've been running Ubuntu (currently : 22.04.2 LTS) on it for almost 2 years, but ...
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Read only Drives 22.04.2 LTS
I can't create folders on my HDD or my system drive, when I try to change the location of a folder to one of this drives, it says that they are in read only mode. How do I fix this?
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Two files with exact same permissions, but one is opening read-only
On an Ubuntu 22.04 VM, when I look at my files, I see that they have read/write/execute permissions set up correctly for root and vboxsf:
$ ls -lrt foo.pvs bar.pvs
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 23492 Jan ...
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trying to boot a usb from ubuntu, it crashed, and remained in read-only mode, how do I disable it?
I have tried many things, but they don't work, I don't know what to do.
the name of the usb is sdb
GParted don't does work
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Satadom switching to read only mode Ubuntu server 20.04
I have several servers which are experiencing seemingly random events where the /boot filesystem is switching to read only mode. My disk layout is:
/dev/sda - ext4 - /boot (63Gb)
/dev/nvme4n1p2 / (...
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How to solve read only in file system for a windows drive in ubuntu
I am using Ubuntu 18.04. Recently I added a ssd in my pc. The SSD used for a long time in windows. When I start using that I can't create any file and folder on that drive but I can read all the files....
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Can't do anything with USB stick Read-only file system
When I plug my USB stick in, I can't open it. Every time I try to do something with it I'm getting a Read-only file system error message. Do you have any idea how to mount and fix it?
GParted:
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Format Readonly file system
I wanted to format my USB drive,
first, the folder is /dev/sr0 for whatever reason
second, Ubuntu 22.04 detects it as a cd/dvd
third, none of the known things such as sudo umount /dev/sr0 then sudo ...
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How do I remount a file system as read/write in linux?
How do I remount a file system as read/write in linux from read only
needed for dev/sda6 ext4,
OS is Dual boot but window is not running
Ubuntu 22.04.1
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File system becomes (read-only?) on an NVMe SSD seemingly at random
I am currently running a somewhat fresh Kubuntu 22.04 install on a relatively new M.2 NVMe drive.
However, I have a problem where my computer drive (I think) turns read only, causing the system to ...
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Read only file system after upgrade
I recently upgraded to 22.04
It seems that my file system cannot be accessed anymore.
I get a read only file system error message when trying to chown -R my home directory
more etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab:...
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remove read-only ISOFS file system created by startup disk creator
I created a bootable Ubuntu-20.04 USB disk using startup disk creator by Ubuntu. The boot is working fine and installed Ubuntu too. But, it has left my USB derive unusable. Whenever I try to format/...
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Repeating problem with root filesystem on SSD becoming read-only randomly
I replaced system SSD drive 1TB with a larger one 2TB and cloned the content using CloneZilla utility. Then in the OS the drive still appeared 1TB but I was able to extend it to 2TB. All the data ...
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USB Cannot be mounted only as ready only
I have an usb in read only mode:
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
file: media/user/USB/
owner: user
group: user user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x
Running fsck -p /dev/sdc1, I ...
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Working with windows shared file in ubuntu
We are using windows(8.1 & 10) and ubuntu(20.04) in our network environment. When we open a xls,word file in ubuntu which is already opened in windows it is not prompting as a read only and also ...
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New 1TB disk works with 18.04 but not 22.04
Just bought a 1TB Element USB disk. I have several before and have had no problems.
I have no problem using the new disk when connected to my laptop running ubuntu 18.04.
Here is the partition table (...
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Opening a file in read-only mode using nano
I am new to Ubuntu. I know I can open a file using vim in read-only mode by pass the -R option:
vim -R <filename> //Gives warning if I try to write
However, if I do the same thing with nano, I ...
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Why is Ubuntu Server NAS partition changing automatically filesystem to "read only" during backups?
UPDATE 05/13: I ran simultaneous backups from 3 workstations (3 different Samba users) yesterday (Windows image backups - almost 47 GB the biggest file, .vhdx type). I noticed that 1 Samba users wrote ...
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Cannot write files
Someone else (who is not available) set up an Ubuntu server. It is hosting a web server (possibly Apache). I am not able to write new versions of the web pages. I logged in as root and went to one ...
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retroarch Error while read-only file system
I installed a snap of retroarch. When i run,it show below error in image
fazil@acer:~$ retroarch
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/fazil/snap/retroarch’: Read-only file system
retroarch error ...
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File system becoming read-only at random
for some time now my OS has been switching to read-only mode seemingly at random. Typical fix for this problem was booting from live USB and running fsck /dev/sda3/ and then I could boot up normally. ...
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Ubuntu 20.4 LTS switching to read only
I have been using Ubuntu for more than a decade. Recently I am using Ubuntu 20.4 lts. It has switched to a read only mode on its own. No idea how this happened. What should I do to make it read and ...
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ddrescue correct tool for an HD, if testdisk finds no partition? Other tools?
I'm on Linux and have an HD (ext4, not ssd), that suddenly was remounted as read-only. After a restart, said HD was shown as having no partition. testdisk didn't find the partition (should be only one,...
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Can't edit file even on sudo [closed]
I want to edit a file in the /snap folder with nano but it is not possible.
[ File '/snap/pycharm-professional/current/bin/pycharm64.vmoptions' is unwritable ]
I even tried this solution, but it is ...
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How can I make a USB flash drive after it was used to create a startup disk for Ubuntu
Now, no matter whether it is mounted/unmounted or I try from within Win 10 or Ubuntu 20.4, I am informed that the drive is Read Only. When I try to wipe it, format it or write to it absolutely ...
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Do not crash the system (everything segfaults) when the USB OS shortly disconnects
I dropped my computer onto the ground and the disk was broken. Therefore, I installed the OS on a USB. However, it sometimes disconnects at any time, during contributing Wikipedia, online chatting, ...
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Ubuntu changed to Read-only file system after update & rbenv install
Linux noob using Ubuntu 20.04.3 to learn code.
Background: This morning I was prompted by Ubuntu to install updates and restart. I have been installing rbenv and Ruby Gems this week trying to fix my ...
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Can I boot with /home as readonly?
In connection to Remotely recover file from rm, I consider somehow setting up my system to intentionally boot with /home as readonly, and reboot.
Is that possible?
I am not sure about how to do it, ...
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Do I need to check readonly disks on boot?
Every x startups, fsck will scan the disks for errors. This takes a very long time for large Disks.
Suppose I made a harddisk read-only with the command sudo tune2fs -O read-only /dev/sdXY.
Are those ...
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Make file system/partition Read-Only for archiving purposes
I have found a couple of questions relating to file systems which are in Read-Only mode after failure and how to make them writable again.
I want to achieve the exact opposite.
I have 3.5" Hard ...
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Windows' partitions become read-only
In between when I am working, the windows partitions suddenly become read-only. When I restart the computer, I have to run fsck -y command to boot the system. The disk assessment is "72 bad ...
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Finding out why disk goes read only oncec a week
Once per week it seems this ssd goes into read only mode. It seems like its always Sunday but I can not 100% confirm that at this point. Is there any place I should look to see whats kicking it into ...
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Trying to patch a read only directory
I am currently trying to apply a patch to a read only directory, but I am having some issues, since this is a read only directory I mount the directory with # mount -o remount,rw /var/lib/waydroid/...
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Can't paste files to external HDD in Ubuntu, but can edit and delete files on it and some programs can still write to it
I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu on a new computer, and my external HDD (internal in an ext case) is read only and I can't seem to be able to change that.
Some programs, however, like youtube-dl, ...
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Read-only filesystem with corrupt Windows installation
My 1tb hdd is read-only. I followed the steps shown here
and got this output:
WARNING: blksize option is ignored because ntfs-3g must calculate it.
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
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Unable to login or reboot after I made computer disk read only and logged out of the dystem
I made the computer disk read only by mistake and after that I logged off from the Ubuntu and switched off my system. When I started my system then it is unable to restart or reboot. Clicked Ctrl+F2 ...
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read-only file system - network share
I've been reading regarding read-only file system posts, but the ones I found relate to HDD/SDD's.
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.2 on my laptop. I have a VM on my server (actual server) and running OMV. ...
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Most of my ext4 Linux Filesystem partition is read-only? How to make it writable?
I have dual booted my computer into Windows and Ubuntu. My SSD is divided into two partitions. One contains the Ubuntu files and the other Windows files. The HDD is my data drive. I have stopped Fast ...
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Can't copy or past files in other locations in Ubuntu [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu in my laptop by partitioning HDD, but now I couldn't copy or past files in other locations of my lap it's showing
"Error while copying, the destination is read-only".
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