I'm using Linux Mint and I'm having trouble making my NTFS drive writable. I want to be able to delete and rename files on it, but right now I can only read from the drive. I have it set up for Plex and Jellyfin without any issues, so it's definitely mounting correctly. Any advice on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated!
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It sounds like a common issue with NTFS drives on Linux. If you’re dual-booting with Windows, make sure that 'Fast Startup' is disabled in Windows. Otherwise, Linux may not allow writing to the drive because it wasn't cleanly unmounted. If that’s not the case, can you tell us if you see any error messages when trying to mount it as writable? You could check with `dmesg` after the mount attempt.
A quick fix you can try is running your file manager as root. You can do this from the terminal by typing `su` to switch to the root user, and then start your file manager (like Dolphin) from there. That might give you the necessary permissions to modify files on that NTFS drive.
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