Unlike Windows, Linux doesn’t allow to have full admin accounts. In Linux there is only one account with all rights and that is called root or super user or su. Our normal account has all the privileges below root if want to run something that requires more privileges than our current account we need to use sudo to get our account elevated to root temporarily.
It security measure and it’s also a good one that makes us look into anything we run which asks for root access that is not part of the system. KDE I’m not much familiar with it but switching to admin won’t work unless your log out and log in as a root user. But never do that.
You can use sudo with any command. Which will raise your normal user privileges until you finish the task. Ex: You said when you try to access the files in your NTFS partitions system is asking for your password. That’s because the system needs to run the command mount as root so it uses sudo mount to raise the privilege level when that happens system prompts the user to enter their root password.
But always logged in as root is really bad and insecure that’s one of the major security issues with Windows.
Yes,
I had kept my important documents in another device, I just need to delete all of the duplicate files so that my workspace is less cluttered. But the move/delete step is the problem.
So why even using ntfs for your drive, if you plan on only using Linux, I suggest working with ext4 instead and avoid all that hassle.
Just saying… Not only because it’s proprietary but practicality. Note this forum is not anti proprietary or anti anything, but obviously a lot of Linux user prefer open source or even free software.
New Technology File System (NTFS) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft.
Btw I also have to use Google services for work, it is what it is. Not ideal but not much I can do about…
I had also noticed one thing yesterday; I also not able to use HDD as storage either.
Ex:- suppose I created a document on desktop and I want to move it to HDD. This process is also not carrying out.
I quickly skimmed through the thread, so sorta failed to find whats the exact set up for this system.
I believe you are able to read data from the drive? In that case this looks pretty much like the fast boot issue. (Edit: ok the drive is not readable too)
If this is not a dual boot system, I don’t see a big reason to have your hdd formatted as NTFS. Also, if this drive was last accessed by windows, and you installed EnOS without disabling fast boot, you might be out of luck. I dunno the technical term, but if you have fast boot enabled, windows puts a “lock” on files which make it not possible to write to the drive from other operating systems.
Re-formatting the drive should get rid of this issue. Though I suppose you have some important files there already? Backup them before proceeding.
If the drive is ext4 - which I believe is not the case here, but still - you need to set right permissions. I used chown to get my ext4 partition working.
You are temporarily mounting your ntfs partition as read only.
One possible solution (the best one, in my opinion):
Delete your ntfs partitions and replace them with an ext4 partition (back up all important data first), using a program like Gparted. This will delete all data on it, so make sure to have a good backup (but that should go without saying). Then edit your /etc/fstab to permanently mount that ext4 partition.
It it doesn’t. I had looked for it when I first heard about bitlocker. But after checking in my device I came to know it doesn’t support bitlocker.
It was available if I would have purchased windows 10 pro.
Backing up is not possible as I am not able to copy/move the files from the drive. When I tried to do it by right clicking the file, the option to move/copy were disabled.
Move is not a read-only operation, of course you can’t move anything. You should be able to copy the files. Use the cp command. Make sure the drive is mounted, of course.
I know it’s not ideal or cheap - but I have one of these I use for all of my backing up of files. I have everything saved to a 4TB HD. . . and then I duplicate it. I backup my backup. It works on everything.
Theoretically you should be able to use the dd command . . . but I’d be super cautious without a backup as well. It can be data duplicator. . . or data destroyer depending on the command you run.
Secondly - If you have access to a Windows computer ANYWHERE - maybe you can do it on that. Hell, go to a local computer store even and see if they will let you try it out - most people don’t care here.
I’m assuming you have already read and tried all things from the Arch Wiki on ntfs. . . .
