Hard drive becomes a read only file system

Fatih19

I have 2 drives in my computer. One is an SSD where I house Solus. The second one is my HDD where I put all of my personal files and documents. I usually do this so that problem with my OS doesn't extend to problem with my data. Basically, preventing metastasis.
I've just mounted my hard drive after several days of trying out Solus and it sees the HDD as a read-only filesystem. I've changed the owner from root to me, changed the permission to rw with chmod -R 777 but it didn;t do anything.
I've looked it up and I found an Ubuntu thread that had similar issues. Someone said that the problem was caused by the OS detecting error so it makes it read-only to prevent corruption. As the solution, one of the user said that I should remount forcibly and also looked at dmesg.
So, just wanted to ask if someone have had this issue and if so, any solutions. I didn't do the solutions mentioned in the Ubuntu forums because I don't know if it applies to Solus. Any helps would be appreciated!

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What filesystem is it?

kyrios

NTFS filesystem ?

Fatih19

kyrios Yes, it's NTFS.

Marcus

I had the same issue. After some research I managed to fix it by setting the uid and gid to my user in the mounting options of the hard drive.

Fatih19

Marcus Can you elaborate?

Justin

Open a terminal and run mount | grep sda to see drives and if they're mounted read-only or read/write. Screenshot below shows my drive rw aka read/write.

Fatih19

Justin There is no result despite the hard drive showing up on the file manager.

rockycse21

I assume you are using "Solus" with windows 8 or 10 dual boot, then you may encounter this kind of problem. If that the case follow instruction below, otherwise ignore this message.

Go to the “Start” menu click on “Settings”. Now click on “System”, on the left column choose “Power & sleep”. Now click “Additional power settings”.
Or
Click on “Start” menu and start typing “Control Panel” & Click on “Control Panel”. Click on System and Security”. Click on “Power options”.
Then
Click on “Choose what the power buttons do”. Click on “Change settings that are currently unavailable”. It will activate bottom portion “Shutdown settings”. Just uncheck “Turn on fast startup(recommended)”.
After "Save changes" it should be look like this.

Fatih19

rockycse21 No, it's not dual boot. I have an SSD inside my system that contains Windows 10 but it's not plugged in.

Anne

rockycse21
Just to clarify:
If it were a double boot, there might be some further issues with Windows. I had quite a similar problem and learned, that not only the "Quickstart"-option but the hibernate-function doesn't let you use your files and/or drives properly. This link helped me fix it: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-enable-or-disable-hibernate-in-windows-10/

Marcus

Fatih19 I just had to set those two variables in the mounting options of the affected hard drive.

kyrios

It's Sunday so I feel lazy and I'll just post a link : https://askubuntu.com/questions/958556/ubuntu-mounts-external-ntfs-drive-as-read-only/958611

Fatih19

Marcus Where do I find this option? I don't speak German.

Marcus

Fatih19 Sorry for that 😅

Open the 'Disks' application and select the drive & partition of the hdd
Click on the settings (gear icon) button and select 'Edit Mount Options'
Unselect 'User Session Defaults'
Select 'Mount at system startup' if you want the drive to be mounted automatically
And in the textbox above 'Mount Point' you can put in your uid and gid as shown in the previous image
Tip: If you want to find out the name of the gid you can go into the properties of a file/folder you have access to and under 'permissions' you can find out the name