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gudnait

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Registered: 2018-09-14

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[SOLVED] Write permissions in ntfs partitions

Hello,

It's been a while, it all was working fine, until one day, I couldn't write or modify the content in my ntfs partitions.

Dolphin doesn't allow me to create/modify files and other programs can't write into it.
I can access and read content.

my /etc/fstab is:

# /dev/nvme1n1p2
UUID=6fa9a65e-199d-4397-9438-403fed3010d1	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime	0 1

# /dev/nvme1n1p3
UUID=25690158-31ba-4b00-8741-bccdfe2524ae	/home     	ext4      	rw,relatime	0 2

# /dev/nvme1n1p1
UUID=F3A0-0EDC      	/boot/efi 	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro	0 2

# /dev/sda3
UUID=ef10203d-c156-41f6-87df-7c1488ae1497	none      	swap      	defaults  	0 0

# /dev/sda1
UUID=14F8F872F8F85408   	/run/media/gudnait/DATA  	ntfs-3g   		uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,rw,windows_names,relatime  	0 2

# /dev/nvme0n1p3
UUID=8A8C07718C0756DB   	/run/media/gudnait/Windows  	ntfs-3g   		uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,rw,windows_names,relatime  	0 2 

So the partitions with problems are: DATA and Windows.

The permissions of parent folders are as follows:

$ ls -l /run/media/gudnait/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 gudnait gudnait 4096 Jan 11 04:33 DATA
drwxr-xr-x 1 gudnait gudnait 8192 Jan 11 04:26 Windows

$ ls -l /run/media
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Jan 15 13:51 gudnait

I don't know what changed on January 11, last date I was able to write in the partitions...

Can you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks a lot!

gudnait

PS. I hope I am posting in the right place

Last edited by gudnait (2020-01-16 02:42:34)

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Re: [SOLVED] Write permissions in ntfs partitions

Please post the output of

mount
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gudnait

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Re: [SOLVED] Write permissions in ntfs partitions

Hi WorMzy,
Sure:

$ mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=12282124k,nr_inodes=3070531,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=28,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=14925)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/nvme0n1p3 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/nvme1n1p3 on /run/media/gudnait/Windows type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /run/media/gudnait/DATA type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=2458216k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)

$ id
uid=1000(gudnait) gid=1000(gudnait) groups=1000(gudnait),985(users),998(wheel)

I am under the impression that the mount options in the lines referring to DATA and Windows are not taking into consideration the mount instructions in the fstab... do you know a way to fix it

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Write permissions in ntfs partitions

If they are explicitly set ro that often also means that there's some safety set up on the partition. Most often because you ran Windows and it generated a fastboot hibernation image: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Du … ibernation

Check whether you have any errror messages on manually mounting and/or

systemctl status run-media-gudnait-DATA.mount
systemctl status run-media-gudnait-Windows.mount

gudnait

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Registered: 2018-09-14

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED] Write permissions in ntfs partitions

Hi V1del,

You nailed the problem! Indeed my fresh Windows installation had that fast boot activated. I deactivated it and it all works wonderfully now.
Thanks a lot!

I will mark the topic as solved.