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Now try again re-mounting, it should mount with full access.
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step1:
First, click on the ‘Dash’ icon and search for the following term..
"disks"
step 2:
Once opened, on its main window, ‘Disks’ graphically shows you your current partition
layout.
Now simply choose the NTFS partition that you want to change the permission of, then
click on the small gears icon slightly below it, then from the menu choose: ‘Edit Mount
Options…’
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step 3:
1. From the next window that you get, move the button to the left, under the option
‘Automatic Mount Options’, to get access to the settings.
2. Now, remove the check-mark under the option ‘Mount at startup’.
You can let it stay enabled too, but I prefer to let Nautilus (file manager) mount the
NTFS partitions, after the desktop is loaded, to speed up the boot-up process .
3. Then, as shown in the below screenshot, you will see a field that says
‘nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show’.
Now all you have to do is, simply copy and paste the below code, and add (paste) it to
the end of that text line (without a space).
,ro
Step 4:
Once done, click on the ‘OK’ button at the bottom, when asked enter your
administrative password, and now you are done!.
If you have more than one NTFS partition, then follow the same steps for setting up the
permission to each one individually.
Now try opening a NTFS partition in Nautilus (or any utility) and you will notice that
you no longer can ‘Cut’ or ‘Delete’ files inside it, as it is mounted with read-only
permissions.
How to disable it?
If later, you wanted to re-enable the read-write support, then simply remove that
manually added ‘,ro’ code (or, you can also move that top button to the right side, until
you see the option ‘ON), and save your changes. That’s it!.
Note: Please remember this works in Ubuntu 12.10 and later versions only.
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Using terminal :
$mkdir /media/foo
Then use the mount command to mount the drive in read-only mode :
Edit : Regarding your error - Ubuntu isn't able to mount the Windows NTFS partition as
Windows might be hibernated. So go to Windows, shut it down completely if you
haven't and then mount the drive on Ubuntu.
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#mkdir /tmp/win_c
2.Perform mount
#umount /dev/sdb2
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Your system is requiring you to mount read-only because windows partition has
hybernate data and can not be manipulated since it holds a live system status. Ntfs
volumes have a a specific flag to dignal this condition.
I do not understand which partition is your /dev/sdb3: maybe a windows data volume?
Error message in your picture is really confusing: errors in /dev/sdb3 and /dev/sda5:
typical example of simple things made complex by too many representation layers
(graphical interface).
Hint: Give to your mount points meaningful names within the source filesystem
context!! If windows C:\ drive is on /dev/sdb3 mount it on /mnt/win_c
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Generally it's a bad idea to suspend windows and try to mount the filesystem elsewhere,
the filesystem might not be in a consistent state. I'd recommend virtualizing one OS
inside the other or shutting down windows before starting linux.
But if you really want to try something like this at the command line:
When done:
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You do not mount /dev/sda, that refers to the entire disk. You need to mount
/dev/sda1 or whatever partition you want.
Mount
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