I can't paste any file in my other local disk from home or a external usb

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i have only one single boot of eos sir.

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I may have a solution

$ lsblk -f
NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL           UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                                                                          
└─sda1      btrfs                        6a506fe3-a14b-4eb1-8853-ee71d2da0ece 
sdb                                                                                          
├─sdb1      ntfs         SYSTEM_DRV      92360AFD360AE259                                    
├─sdb2      ntfs         Windows7_OS     06F60E46F60E3689 
└─sdb3      ntfs         Lenovo_Recovery BAE0960CE095CECF

if I mounted sdb2 i.e. Windows7_OS it was mounted as read-only (despite the label it is windows 10)
To fix I did

sudo ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sdb2 /mnt
sudo umount /mnt

Note: from ntfs-3g man page
"remove_hiberfile
When the NTFS volume is hibernated, a read-write mount is denied and a read-only mount is forced. One needs either to resume Windows and shutdown it properly, or use this option which will remove the Windows hibernation file. Please note, this means that the saved Windows session will be completely lost. Use this option under your own responsibility.
"
If that is not acceptable do not do this.

change /dev/sdb2 and /mnt to match your system, I used /mnt as nothing else was mounted there
then mounting the disk again mount shows me
/dev/sdb2 on /run/media/xxxxx/Windows7_OS type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2)
previously it was
/dev/sdg2 on /run/media/xxxxx/Windows7_OS type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2)
HTH

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buddy,
beforehand i have cleary mentioned that i have single boot eos.

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If you are not dual booting with Windows, why do you have 3 ntfs partitions on your computer? And why is one of them labeled swap? Is there an actual reason for this?

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Sorry I was busy and kind of forgot to follow up. Thank you for replying. And it seems you have messed up the partitioning of your hard disk.

The best thing if you’re not going to dual boot is to have Linux file systems on your partitions. Windows NTFS is not a good file system by Linux standards but better under Windows standards.

I would advise you to do a reinstall if you’re willing to do that. If you’re going to do a reinstall it’s best to remove all the partitions from your hard drive before starting the installation. This can be done using GParted which is a GUI partition manager found in the Live Environment.

Once removing the partitions start enos calamaris installer and continue till where you get to the partitioning section. Once there you can do manual partitioning or use the auto partition function. If you wish to use hibernate then select to have swap file according to your need when you’re doing the auto partitioning.

If you wish to create partitions manually then you can use that too. If you are on a system that supports UEFI then make a new partition table which is of type GPT and then make a small partition size around 550 MB and select the file type as FAT32 and label it as /boot/efi. Then you can create your root / partition giving a size above 30 GB would be enough. Then you can make your /home parttion remember to minus the size you’re going to assign to your swap partition. As a rule of thumb, you can use this equation to get the size of your swap. size of your ram x 2 = swap partition size

Frome the screen shots I see you only have one hard drive so this partition table would be enough for you to have a good running enos system.