NTFS Partitions

KronikPillow

I have mounted my Data NTFS partition trough fstab to /mnt/data but it is mounted as read only .... how do i mount it so that i can write to it? i have tried searching the software center with ntfs as search option to see if im missing some packates to write to NTFS but it seems there are none ...

also, how do i add /mnt/data/ to my Nautilus side bar? so that i dont have to go always to Other Locations/Computer/mnt/data

kyrios

Use the search, young padawan...

KronikPillow

@kyrios if by use search you mean to use search to find the partition, that's what I'm doing, but that wasn't the question, for example, i have Solus MATE installed as well, and in it's file manager it's displaying all my drives in the sidebar so it's just 1 click away from accessing it .... but still, the drive is in read only

[deleted]

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/227-hard-drive-becomes-a-read-only-file-system

This most likely answers your question.

kyrios

Thanks @[deleted] 👍️

Here is another result in case nothing from the first link should work : https://discuss.getsol.us/d/347-hard-drive-partitions-are-read-only

KronikPillow

Oh 🙂 sorry 🙂 will report back if it worked 🙂

KronikPillow

this is what i get for 2nd option
kronikpillow@susanoo ~ $ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda4 Password: Mounting volume... Windows is hibernated, refused to mount. FAILED Attempting to correct errors... Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr... Reading $MFT... OK Reading $MFTMirr... OK Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully. Setting required flags on partition... OK Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK Windows is hibernated, refused to mount. Remount failed: Operation not permitted kronikpillow@susanoo ~ $ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda5 Refusing to operate on read-write mounted device /dev/sda5. kronikpillow@susanoo ~ $

the first option now shows the drives in the file manager but when i click on it it says

unable to mount location
/mnt/windows:/ operation permitted for root only
so basically the 1st option is trying to mount something that is already mounted in to /mnt/data

here is my fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <fs>      <mountpoint> <type> <opts>      <dump/pass>

# /dev/ROOT   /            ext3    noatime        0 1
# /dev/SWAP   none         swap    sw             0 0
# /dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy  auto    noauto         0 0
none        /proc        proc    nosuid,noexec  0 0
none        /dev/shm     tmpfs   defaults       0 0
# /dev/sda7 at time of installation
UUID=6db329ff-9790-4975-8483-55132fbf4434	/home	ext4	rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro	0	2
# /dev/sda6 at time of installation
UUID=ea4da217-38fc-4825-b6b6-87446127e1fb	/	ext4	rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro	0	1
UUID=2292C92A92C90371 /mnt/windows/ ntfs defaults,noatime,x-gvfs-show 0 2
UUID=01D4C587E78AB0F0 /mnt/data/ ntfs defaults,noatime,x-gvfs-show 0 2

KronikPillow

so, what i'm trying to do is permanently mount these partitions so that i do not have to mount them each time i boot, reasons for it are simple, i use my data partition for all my data windows and linux, music, videos, documents, installation files, games, etc etc etc and it's a pain to have to go to the root partition/mnt/data each time i want something from there so i wanted to save a few clicks by somehow creating a entry for it in the file manager but not in the devices pane, rather in the Computer pane where it already shows my Home, Desktop, File System, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, Trash etc ... (currently on MATE testing it out)

yursan9

If you dual boot with Windows, you need deactivate fast boot. The ntfsfix output said your windows partition is used by hibernation. If you need to mount partition at boot time, you can use gnome disks to configure it using GUI.

KronikPillow

fast boot and secure boot is not enabled mate .... I have already mounted the partitions trough editing /etc/fstab its in my previous post, and on MATE they are actually mounted as read-write, I'm trying to add those partitions that are mounted to folders /mnt/windows and /mnt/data to the file manager list for easy access.... seems no one gets what I'm aiming at ... can i upload a screenshot here?

Harvey

KronikPillow

Navigate to the directory /mnt and drag and drop windows and data folders to the side pannel, its creates a bookmark.

[deleted]

KronikPillow The error message is because your Windows is hibernated. To properly shut down you can either disable fast boot (from Windows, not from BIOS) or shut down your Windows while holding SHIFT key.

Justin

Clearly says Windows is hibernated (could be or fastboot enabled)..

Edit: Yes you can upload screenshots @KronikPillow.

KronikPillow

Ok, disabled hibernation in Windows and now both partitions have read write access .. used gnome disks instead of fstab to mount the partitions ... thanks for the help 🙂

topic can be marked as solved

bigrammy

This exact same problem just wasted hours of my life!!!
So thanks for solving this issue just wish I had seen this earlier. I will add it to my list of "Things To Do" before installation.
Dam Windows!
Expect more visitors.