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You need to mount the NTFS drive with the UTF-8 options. If you look up on Google how to mount the ntfs-3g filesystem , you'll see that you need these options:

defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8

The symptom that you will get if your missing the UTF-8 option is that you can read to the drive but you cannot write. For, example, you would lose the ability to move a file off of the drive.

Note: a link to more info is here . The UTF-8 option is mentioned here .

Running

sudo apt-get purge ntfs-3g

and then

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

worked for me.

I guess it's because initrd.img was not generated with the ntfs-3g module while kernel update took place. Just a guess because I didn't have ntfsprogs installed. I had only ntfs-3g which didn't work.

For ntfs you should use the permissions option.

Using /dev/sda1 as an example (you can use UUID in fstab as well), mounted at /media/ntfs (adjust your partition / mountpoint / fstab entry to your needs).

Edit /etc/fstab

# graphical
gksu gedit /etc/fstab

# command line
sudo -e /etc/fstab

Add/Edit your entry to look similar this line

/dev/sda1 /media/ntfs ntfs-3g locale=en_US.UTF-8,permissions 0 0

Make a mount point (if needed)

[[ -d /media/ntfs ]] || sudo mkdir /media/ntfs

Unmount and re-mount the ntfs partition

sudo umount /dev/sda1
sudo mount /media/ntfs

Now you can manage the ownership and permissions with chown and chmod

sudo chown -R your_user:your_user /media/ntfs
chmod -R ug+rw /media/ntfs

If, after all that, the partition is not working as expected, check it from windows.

I installed GParted with ntsfprog as add-on a month back and I lost the write permission (I just find out).

So, I un-installed ntfsprogs only, and then installed ntfs-3g and that solved the problem.

If you're dual-booting, try

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1

and replace /dev/sda1 with the partition name (e.g. /dev/sda4 [for the fourth partition on the primary hard drive] or /dev/sdb [for a single partitioned secondary drive]).

Thank goodness I found this post. I was having a similar problem where i could make a folder or file, but I could not change the file or folder except delete it. It gets really annoying when you must do chmod on every new file or folder.

All I did was:

sudo apt-get purge ntfsprogs
sudo apt-get purge ntfs-3g
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

The purge option is a full uninstall. After that, I just grabbed a fresh install. Simple, and it works.

Same thing happened to me after I installed GParted few days ago. So I did some research in the Internet and found that its because an add-on called "ntfsprogs"(older ntfs utility) overwritten the add-on "ntfs-3g"(latest ntfs version).

I can't understand the whole thing, but those two add-ons are in a conflict.
So all you need to do is remove "ntfsprogs" by using Software Center.

1. Type GParted and unmark "Tools for doing neat things in NTFS partitions from linux(ntfsprogs)" or remove GParted completely.




2. Type "ntfs" in Ubuntu Software center. First option you get is "NTFS Configuration Tools".




3. Install it and bingo. Now you got your permissions back.

I had this recurring problem for months. I was under the impression that this was specifi to Toshiba drive.

Anyway, this is how I dealt with it successfully:

1. If your drive is not mounting and giving you an exit 13 error, since you have ntfsfix now, run ntfsfix -b /dev/sdbx where you replace sdbx with your hard drive/NTFS drive. You can get your drive name from sudo fdisk -l. You'd be able to identiy your drive from there.

For instance, for me, sudo fdisk -l returns:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000586fb

 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2148 961320312 480659082+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 961320313 976773167 7726427+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 961320314 976773167 7726427 83 Linux

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcfd88605

 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1953525167 976762583+ ee GPT

Here, /dev/sdb1 is my external hard drive.

1. After this you might need to run chown -R username:username /media/path/to/hardrive to give yourself read+write rights (recursively to all folders and subfolder).

I've had to do this twice which probably suggests that my hard drive is dying! Have you backed your data up?