Skip to main content

All Questions

Tagged with
0 votes
0 answers
22 views

How to automatically do a ntfsfix every time at reboot? [duplicate]

On a dual-boot laptop I have a partition /dev/nvme0n1p4 which I want to mount as ntfs partition for Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows-10. But really often this partition only mounts as read-only. The entry in ...
Alex's user avatar
  • 452
1 vote
0 answers
74 views

"Zombie" file in ntfs drive

In my Ubuntu 20.04 machine, I have an NTFS partition as main file storage, along with the Ubuntu partition and a third one with Windows 10. In the NTFS partition I have a file I cannot delete, rename ...
user4052054's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
194 views

No access to NTFS partitions from Linux [duplicate]

After a few updates on Windows and Kubuntu, on Kubuntu I no longer have write and modify access to NTFS drives, can only read NTFS partitions even as root. Systen config: 128GB M.2-SSD drive, 1TB S-...
user2020's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
398 views

Ubuntu NTFS not write permissions

I have inside my system a m.2 samsung evo 970 formatted to NTFS. 3 weeks ago it was perfectly running with write permissions and everything no problem at all in Ubuntu 18.04. Then I upgraded to 19.10 ...
coerrace's user avatar
  • 101
0 votes
2 answers
701 views

Mounted NTFS windows-linux shared partition works for users r-w, but access denied for programs

I created an NTFS partition to share my data between my two OS : Kubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10. I tried several fstab configs : UUID=partitionId /media/totok/Data ntfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatume,...
totok's user avatar
  • 101
0 votes
1 answer
13k views

Formatting drives to NTFS ubuntu

I have been having some trouble with formatting drives to NTFS on Kubuntu Terminal. For some reason it takes a lot of CPU power and time to do this operation. I am currently doing it on an external ...
checkmate's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
300 views

Dual boot with shared data - ext2fs corrupts partition

I want to have the following setup: Windows on C: partition (ntfs) Linux (Ubuntu) on F: partition (ext4) All my files on D: partition (ext4) My problem is: every time I boot Windows Ext2Fsd corrupts ...
piegames's user avatar
  • 196
1 vote
2 answers
10k views

Windows 10 live USB can't find installation partition

Recently, I've decided to install Windows 10 on my Ubuntu machine but in a separate partition so that I could dual-boot it. However, the installer wouldn't recognize the NTFS partition I created when ...
Bruno Fauth's user avatar
1 vote
3 answers
3k views

How do I reformat a HD to GPT with the filesystem NTFS?

I'm trying to install Windows on my hard drive. Unfortunately, it is in MBR and not GPT. After looking up this on the internet, I used a live USB of Ubuntu to gdisk it into being a GPT. I originally ...
virchau13's user avatar
  • 121
0 votes
1 answer
4k views

unable to read contents of file systems

I used to own a windows-based laptop but I wanted to partition the disk for ubuntu installation. After two weeks of debugging, defragmentation and windows settings, I was still unable to partition the ...
Simon's user avatar
  • 125
1 vote
0 answers
615 views

Most of the files on a NTFS Partition show zero bytes as size after chkdsk on Boot

I was trying ubuntu from a bootable pen drive of ubuntu. But Ubuntu was unable to access F: Drive, it was showing the following error message : Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/ubuntu/New Volume:...
Anurag Shukla's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
213 views

Windows 8.1 no longer recognize disk with a NTFS AND a ext4 ubuntu install

So, as I do every 6 month, I installed a Ubuntu partition on my computer. I have a main SSD (C:) with Win8.1 on it and I had a secondary HDD (D:) with a single huge NTFS partition on it for my data. ...
Doombot's user avatar
  • 273
-1 votes
3 answers
15k views

How to format to NTFS my EXT4 partition on Windows 8?

I'd like to format one of my partitions to NTFS which is EXT4 at the moment and an ubuntu is installed on, that I don't need anymore. I can't see the partition in My Computer and I've never tried ...
cyrfandli's user avatar
9 votes
3 answers
55k views

Can Ubuntu Linux be installed on FAT32 or NTFS?

Before I start, don't lecture me on the fact that FAT32 is old and hasn't been updated for nearly 20 years. Right now I have sorted that. I am trying to install Ubuntu Linux onto a 64GB flash drive ...
09stephenb's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
842 views

Not permitted to create a new directory on a ntfs partition?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. When I open a pdf file in Evince, and want to click "Save as" in the menu of Evince to create a new directory on a ntfs partition (shared between Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 ...
Tim's user avatar
  • 17.3k

15 30 50 per page