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I have installed Ubuntu in my laptop by partitioning HDD, but now I couldn't copy or past files in other locations of my lap it's showing

"Error while copying, the destination is read-only".

Why is that????

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  • What do you mean by other locations? Please be specific. Also, stop with the emoji, it looks awful and makes your question harder to read. – Mark Kirby Oct 26 '21 at 16:46
  • Currently I am using Ubuntu 21.10 in which when we open files there is option available as Other Locations on bottom last where we can find other drives in pc I couldn't transfer files to that location, even can't create new folder in that location please help if you know solution brother. – K D Oct 26 '21 at 16:52
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    Is that "other location" a windows drive? – Mark Kirby Oct 26 '21 at 16:53

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This might be a couple issues: the UUID of the filesystem might be the same or it could be that the filesystem is read only because it's not mounted with the correct command. I checked the tags and saw dual boot so that's a possibility.

To check the UUID use (If the external UUID is the same as the internal continue, if not go to solution 2)`

sudo blkid

Now use a file system check on the respective external filesystem as super user.

e2fsck -f -p -C 0 /dev/sda5

Show me the results.

Now here is the second solution if the UUID is different.

First Type in

id

to get the uid and gid of the following command.

sudo mount -o remount,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw /dev/sdc1

CHECK GPARTED FOR THE FILESYSTEM IN QUESTION

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