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Why does my NTFS partition mount as read only?
Happened to me, all I did was
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdxX # where x is HDD and X is drive number, in my case it was /dev/sda1
it will remove any logfile created by windows.
worked for me.
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Why does my NTFS partition mount as read only?
Performing a full shutdown of Windows will allow the drives to be fully mounted by Ubuntu. This can be accomplished by holding the SHIFT key as you press the "Shut down" button on the "...
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Why does my NTFS partition mount as read only?
If it happens in case of dual booting with Windows 10, you need to uncheck turn on fast startup in Control Panel --> Power Options --> Choose what the power buttons do and then shutdown, not ...
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WoeUSB Error Code 256 with NTFS formatted USB
Edit 6: a major edit
Now we talk about the github version of woeusb
The github version is at 5.1.3 and works in Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS (and 18.04.x LTS, probably all current versions of Ubuntu, but I have ...
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Format USB drive to NTFS so it is usable under Windows
gparted (GNU Partition Editor) is a good graphical tool for formating drives to a variety of different filesystem types. You can install it with sudo apt-get install gparted.
Just as when you are ...
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How to automount NTFS partitions?
Ubuntu 20.04 and later
Open nautilus and create a new folder, I suggest in the home folder.
Open the Disks application.
Select the partition you want to automount and then click on Additional ...
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Format USB drive to NTFS so it is usable under Windows
With mkntfs
Install mkntfs which is provided by package ntfs-3g:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
Find the partition of your USB drive with lsblk -f or df -Th. Let's assume it's at /dev/sdb1.
Unmount the ...
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How to enable NTFS write support on mounted partitions in Ubuntu 18.04?
to mount the partitions in read-write mode:
run ntfsfix /dev/sdaX to resolve the problem. then remount the partitions.
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Dropbox on a dual-boot machine
Q. Can this situation be solved?
Nope.
Which probably leads to ...
Q. Why not?
The problem comes down to how Dropbox relies on the journaling mechanism of the file system to know when a file has been ...
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Cannot remove hiberfile on NTFS partition
Moving the -o to the end worked for me:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /mnt/win -o remove_hiberfile
(Ubuntu 16.04 live cd and a vanilla windows 7)
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Can't mount NTFS partition with write permissions
If the NTFS drives are mounting as read-only, its probably because Ubuntu thinks their filesystems are unclean, probably due to hibernation, or a damaged file system. Do this:
in Windows
boot into ...
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Ubuntu mounts external ntfs drive as read-only?
This is a common question and has been answered numerous times in AskUbuntu (for example, here).
In short, you probably have fast boot turned on in Windows, which is why Linux will only mount it in ...
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What causes high CPU usage by mount.ntfs?
Changing the mount options for the NTFS partition changed the application I was using from unusable with 100% mount.ntfs CPU to fully functional. The key one to use is "big_writes", but my full list ...
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How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
Check that Fast Startup is turned off
If Windows uses Fast Startup, it is semi-hibernated, and its file system is 'dirty', and Linux mounts it read-only to avoid causing damage. Either reboot Windows (...
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Can't write to NTFS formatted drives
If you're dual-booting, try
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1
and replace /dev/sda1 with the partition name (e.g. /dev/sda4 [for the fourth partition on the primary hard drive] or /dev/sdb [for a single ...
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badblocks taking really long time. or is it frozen?
You can see where badblocks is currently positioned in the drive by looking at its fdinfo in proc, i.e:
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# ps ax | grep badblock
3772 tty1 D+ 12:11 badblocks -v /dev/...
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Unable to access the HardDisk drive in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Simply open terminal and type this command
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
you can replace /dev/sda2 by your appropriate drive in which you are facing problem, like in my case there was a same problem with ...
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How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
All steps:
Install ntfs-3g:
sudo apt-get install -y ntfs-3g
Unmount NTFS partition:
sudo umount /mnt/windows
Use ntfsusermap (ex ntfs-3g.usermap) to generate your UserMapping file:
#sudo ntfs-...
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Install Ubuntu on a NTFS partition
It is possible to install Ubuntu on a NTFS partition.
Image Creation
You need to create an image file on your NTFS partition. Try boot up your Ubuntu Live CD, start a terminal, change directory into ...
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USB pendrive : the copy takes about 3 minutes but the unmount takes a very long time : 10 to 12 minutes
You are probably suffering from buffering caching. To speed up writing to USB sticks (and hard disks in general), Linux uses a filesystem cache:
When you (think you) write something to the stick then ...
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Unable to mount Windows (NTFS) filesystem due to hibernation
It has become even more simple (Windows 8+)
Just force shutdown or you can say complete shutdown your windows system before rebooting to Ubuntu OS.
Well how will I do that?
Very simple: Shift + ...
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ntfsfix error: Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk. After ntfsresize
You need to boot into Windows, or use a different computer with Windows if it's an external drive. Windows should automatically detect that there's an issue and have a pop-up asking if you would like ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 can't write on NTFS partition
your windows is putting the "read-only" flag on all detectable ntfs partitions everytime it shuts down or reboots.
If you don't want it to do that, boot to your windows, open up a administator ...
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Unable to mount Windows (NTFS) filesystem due to hibernation
For Windows 8+
You need to disable the "Fast Startup" feature. To quote the How-To-Geek:
Open up your power options by hitting Windows+X or right-clicking your
Start menu and selecting ...
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NTFS Partition is mounted as read only
Step #1:
First, you should also check your /etc/fstab to assure that the mount for your NTFS partition does so as rw, not ro.
Step #2:
If you still had Windows installed, I'd recommend a different ...
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Dropbox on a dual-boot machine
This used to work, but as the other answer says, Dropbox blocks file systems they do not want to support. At the time they made this change, I also required dual booting, and moved away from Dropbox.
...
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Filename with colon in NTFS
You are right, there is a change ... as of kernel 5.15 a new NTFS driver(module) is integrated into the kernel ... It's called NTFS3 which replaces(obsoletes) the old NTFS kernel driver(module) itself ...
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After Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade NTFS is read only problem?
For my case, The command sudo dmesg | tail shows:
ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'
It seems the new ntfs3 driver does not support the 'windows_names' flag anymore.
Base on this suggestion I ...
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Very slow write rate from ext4 to NTFS
I have founded a solution: I’ve changed the sync to async in this /etc/fstab line that I used to tell Ubuntu to auto-mount the disk:
UUID=<uuid> <pathtomount> <file system> uid=<...
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Can't write on ntfs partition shared with Windows 10
In most of the cases the problem is with fast startup feature of Windows 10.
If it is the case you have to simply disable fast startup on Windows.
Here are the steps.
Type Control Panel in the ...
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