Cannot change permissions of partition

Asked Dec 15 '18 at 17:39

Active Dec 18 '18 at 18:27

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I cannot write anything to my Windows partition. Trying below command does not help.

$ sudo chmod 777 /media/pi/Windows 
[sudo] password for pi: 
chmod: changing permissions of '/media/pi/Windows': Read-only file system

But when I do ls -l /media/pi/Windows I get drwxrwxrwx for all folders and -rwxrwxrwx for all files. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 Codename: bionic

edited Dec 18 '18 at 18:27

asked Dec 15 '18 at 17:39

Piyush Chauhan

What is the mount command you used to mount the device (or fstab entry) and the output to lsb_release --code? – Fabby Dec 15 '18 at 18:56
You cannot change ownership & permissions on NTFS formatted partitions. They only have settings based on mount. If issue is it really Windows hibernation is on? https://askubuntu.com/questions/145902/unable-to-mount-windows-ntfs-filesystem-due-to-hibernation – oldfred Dec 18 '18 at 19:49
Actually I am able to mount and read the Windows partition but cannot write onto it. – Piyush Chauhan Dec 18 '18 at 20:39
Possible duplicate of How to efficiently partition a single Windows-Ubuntu dual boot disk? – Fabby Dec 19 '18 at 01:19
Are you sure that when leaving Windows you have shut it down completely? - if your symptoms are that paste, rename, delete options in file manager context menu are absent, most probably that's the cause – Dec 19 '18 at 10:36

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