Windows mounts suddenly going read-only

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Windows mounts suddenly going read-only - timbuck2 - 01-05-2019

For a couple of days my windows7 and windows10 drives have been going read-only and I have to reboot and check their filesystems.

They are auto-mounted via fstab:

Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a

# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices

# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).

#

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation

UUID=a2fbbae1-060e-4751-bec4-653e2c031c9f /  ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

UUID=CC36728936727474    /mnt/windows10    ntfs    defaults    0    0

UUID=6460FFA960FF7FDA    /mnt/windows7    ntfs    defaults    0    0

/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0

/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

What could be causing this issue? It just started yesterday and happened today a couple of times after I restarted LL. Are they not being unmounted properly?

Re: Windows mounts suddenly going read-only - Valtam - 01-05-2019

Did you chmod the drives?

Re: Windows mounts suddenly going read-only - timbuck2 - 01-05-2019

Oh no, just mounted them as normal after I installed LL. They are r/w:

Code:
 /mnt> ls -la

total 52

drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Jan  4 20:38 .

drwxr-xr-x 26 root root  4096 Jan  2 23:29 ..

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan  4 20:38 cdrom

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan  1 17:24 ftp

drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  8192 Dec 28 22:14 windows10

drwxrwxrwx  1 root root 28672 Jan  4 19:28 windows7

Just started doing this yesterday. I was reading online if windows drives are not unmounted correctly they can require CHKDSK to be run so they go to RO until checked. After I reboot and run each OS from its drive natively once, then they go back to RW on LL. Really weird. Maybe I should be shutting down instead of restarting so much. I know when I log out and log back in, my wifi network won't come back up. I have to do a shutdown and reboot.

Re: Windows mounts suddenly going read-only - Valtam - 01-05-2019

There's excellent information on mouthing hard drives in the Help Manual, have a read through.

Re: Windows mounts suddenly going read-only - trinidad - 01-05-2019

Hold the shift key down when you shut down Windows. (Press and hold first and select shutdown and don't release it until the computer goes off)

TC

Re: Windows mounts suddenly going read-only - timbuck2 - 01-06-2019

Will try this to do true shutdown instead of hybrid shutdown. Thanks.

Re: Windows mounts suddenly going read-only - TheDead - 01-07-2019

Hi,
For Windows 10, you can disable the option like mentionned here :
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-windows-10-fast-startup
For Windows 7, just to be safe, open a command line in administrator mode (run as administrator) and type :powercfg -H OFFThis will disable hibernation.
I think the read only will also happen when the disk is in a "dirty" / not sut down properly state. But this I'm not 100% certain.
Cheers!

Re: Windows mounts suddenly going read-only - timbuck2 - 01-09-2019

Thanks, I'll keep this information for reference. I've noticed as I migrate more and more of my applications to linux and wine I'm finding less and less need to reboot into windows and the drives haven't gone RO for a couple days.