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ofaruk

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Registered: 2021-12-25

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] Cannot write on partition which I have wr permission

Hey there, I am having a problem with writing on a partition recently. The story is as follows. A partition was being mounted by fstab file with no issue. I am using xfce. Then I wanted to try gnome. Installed it but never launched. I keep using xfce, it asked keyring whenever I launch a program (after installing gnome). Then I deleted gnome which I never launched it and continued with xfce. Today, I realized that I cannot write on that partition anymore, even with "su".

fstab file includes my uid and gid with wr permissions.
ls -l shows my user has every permission of the files on that partition.
I dual boot Arch and Windows. I didn't do any changes on Windows side.

Last edited by ofaruk (2022-01-29 20:12:08)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot write on partition which I have wr permission

Which file system? Post those literal outputs as well as the output of

mount

in code tags.

Seeing as you mentioned dual boot, make sure Windows fast boot is disabled, it can and will lead to locks on a NTFS partition if Windows is hibernated: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_b … ibernation

ofaruk

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Registered: 2021-12-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot write on partition which I have wr permission

Thanks for reminding hibernation on Windows. I turned off hibernation and now I can read/write on the partition.

I was sure that I turned off fast boot while installing Arch. I remember now, there was a Windows update a couple days ago. Maybe this update is the reason. Who knows what they do while the dots are rotating under Windows logo.

Thanks again!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot write on partition which I have wr permission

they definitely occasionally reenable this while the dots are rotating, so yeah you'd need to check this generally after Win updates.

ofaruk

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Registered: 2021-12-25

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot write on partition which I have wr permission

I'll keep an eye on it.