On 02/08/19 16:57, T wrote:
Dear Windows and Linux newsgroups,
I have a cross platform issue so I am cross posting.
Last week I booted two separate Windows 10 computer off a
Fedora 29 Xfce Live USB stick. I was able to
mount the Windows NTFS main drive, but only as
"read only". I could see everything and did (I was
not in one of those screw ball hidden Windows
partitions), but could not touch anything.
After unmounting, I went to clear the dirty flag (from linux),
# ntfsfix -d device (/dev/sda1)
I got as message as that the dirty flag could not
be cleared because "Windows is hibernating".
I went back into Windows, made sure the "Fast Boot"
option was off (I had been on these machines before)
and it was still off. Then I ran a
chkdsk c: /f
from Windows and rebooted, letting chkdsk run its course.
After shutting Windows back down and rebooting into Linux,
I still could not mount the C: drive as read/write.
What am I doing wrong?
Many thanks,
-T
this is an old bug with respect to multi-boot systems. As I understand
it, you may not be doing a proper shutdown but using some kind of
'hibernate' like when you set things up for a "fast reboot".
Normally I'd say to turn that 'fast reboot' thing off, and do a full
reboot every time. But you said you actually DID that. So apparently
NOT, then...
I have to wonder if your Linux NTFS driver is read-only on NTFS. Are
you using the native kernel module or the Fuse FS driver? Fuse FS
should be read/write. A native kernel module version might be read-only.
I haven't multi-booted windows + Linux (or FreeBSD) in quite some time,
preferring instead to just use Linux (or FreeBSD) ALL of the time with
windows in a VM when I need it. But I've read about this
hibernate-related problem before. And I also know that _SOME_ NTFS
drivers for Linux and other OS's won't mount read-write. The best one
to use is probably the FuseFS one anyway.
https://superuser.com/questions/1394...ver-vs-ntfs-3g
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