• 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Unless u have a ntfs shared drive which gets locked by windows if u don’t restart…

    One of the main reasons why I let ot boot all the way. If nothing else, it’ll mark the partition as dirty 😒. Sure, I can sudo mount my way into it, but I really have no idea if everything’s OK with it. So, I have to reboot, boot into Windows, mark the partition for a consistency check, reboot, boot into Windows again so it could do the check, then reboot again and (finally!) boot into Linux 😒… I mean, just let it boot all the way the first time, it’ll be over rather quickly.

    • Darken@reddthat.com
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      10 months ago

      I’m not completely sure but I think u can’t sudo mount rw, the only way I get it to work is with ntfsfix which does magic and releases the windows lock (but even this doesn’t always work)

      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Really? I think it shows the files as locked, but you can actually do whatever in root 🤔.

        In either case, it’s just more painless to actually let it boot all the way than to interrupt the boot process.

        • Darken@reddthat.com
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          10 months ago

          I wasn’t able to force it to mount rw without unlocking the drive first

          In fact the whole process is with sudo to begin with, so do we do sudo of sudo to force sudo to do the thing? (jk, but yea it needs sudo in any case)