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I am running Ubuntu 20.04.2, and am having a problem with cutting, renaming, or moving files in my NTFS partition. It appears to be that I don't have the appropriate permissions, but when I check them I have full read, write, and execute permissions. Here's a terminal window outlining the discrepancy:

Cannot move file, read-only file system

And here is the same problem through in Nautilus:

all access rights

greyed out write options

I've run chmod several times; what am I missing?

Zanna
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    Does this answer your question? Why does my NTFS partition mount as read only? – muru Apr 27 '21 at 21:46
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    A read-only file-system means it's RO & permissions on files don't mean anything (the RO file-system is due to detected problem or other found in logs, and trumps any file-system as writing to the drive may result in data loss, so your system prevents this by flipping the fs to RO). Trying to chmod on a RO fs is a waste of time & user-error, as the reason the fs is RO should be investigated & fixed; your system is trying to protect your data, but you want to destroy it? by writing to a problematic fs ? Read your messages & explore why. – guiverc Apr 27 '21 at 22:29
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    Which answer should be used? The accepted one and many others are obsolete (ntfs-3g is installed by default). – Zanna May 18 '21 at 07:45

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