A few weeks ago I tried Linux Mint on my 10 years old laptop and it worked way better than Windows. So I decied to keep it. But I wanted to keep all my old files, so I hadn't format my hard disk. I only format the particion where windows was, and replaced it with linux. But now I can only read those files. I don't have the permission to detele them or make new folders. What can I do?
1 Answer
Several different things may cause this
Some reasons I can think of just now:
- If the NTFS file system has errors, it will automatically be mounted as read-only to avoid corruption of data.
- Check the file-system and fix errors.
- Some NTFS drivers on Linux provide read-only file-system access.
- Check the software center for different packages providing NTFS support.
- Partition is mounted with root as both owner and access group.
- Recursively change file ownership.
Changigng ownership recursively
Open a terminal in the respective directory, then issue the following command line
sudo chown -R 1000:1000 .