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I have a NTFS partition. Before upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04, it was working perfectly and I could read/write/delete files with no problem.

However, after upgrading I can only read the disk and it says that it is a fuse filesystem, as you can see in the following screenshot.

Ntfs Properties

How do I fix it so it can be read/write/delete again?

BeastOfCaerbannog
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Martin Andersen
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    Are you dual-booting with Windows? If so disable its Fast Startup feature and shutdown. If not then you shouldn't keep NTFS partitions around because when errors happen there's no way to correct them from Ubuntu or any other Linux. NTFS requires Windows tools. – ChanganAuto Apr 23 '22 at 17:30
  • This is not a Microsoft Windows problem. I have two laptops, both upgraded to the latest Ubuntu 22.04, I have the same problem on both laptops, I can only read from the disks. I do dualboot - In each laptop, there are two nvmee drives. One drive for Ubuntu and another drive for windows. I use GRUB as the bootloader, so windows has absolute no control over the Ubuntu boot. I do also boot into windows from GRUB. – Martin Andersen Apr 23 '22 at 17:41
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    It seems you understood very little, if any, of my previous comment. Your reply reads as and entirely different movie. Again, if you're dual-booting then please boot Windows, make sure Windows' Fast Startup feature is disabled and check the drives for errors. Then shutdown instead of rebooting to Ubuntu. Report back. – ChanganAuto Apr 23 '22 at 22:36
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    Disabling fast boot in windows did the trick. Thanks enormously! Your wisdom is deeply appreciated! My Apologies.. I was so focused on that it was a Ubuntu setting is was missing – Martin Andersen Apr 24 '22 at 13:51
  • @ChanganAuto you should turn this into an answer and get some points! – AntonOfTheWoods May 16 '22 at 01:55
  • I too am having this trouble and my windows pc doesnt have fast boot enabled. i had disabled it years ago and double checked that it is still disabled and yup it is – Jono Jul 20 '22 at 20:48
  • i cant even install ntfsfix as the packae doesnt exist.... – Jono Jul 20 '22 at 20:49

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For my case, The command sudo dmesg | tail shows:

ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'

It seems the new ntfs3 driver does not support the 'windows_names' flag anymore. Base on this suggestion I made /etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf file containing:

[defaults]
ntfs_defaults=uid=$UID,gid=$GID
ntfs_allow=uid=$UID,gid=$GID,nls,umask,dmask,fmask,nohidden,sys_immutable,discard,force,sparse,showmeta,prealloc,no_acs_rules,acl,noatime
ma.mehralian
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Try this in terminal:

sudo apt remove ntfsprogs && sudo apt install ntfs-3g

Then reboot your system.

hpascual
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  • I have the same error, but ntfs-3g is already installed, and not ntfsprogs. –  Nov 15 '22 at 11:02
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    Despite having three downvotes, just a side-note that another new-user posted in an "answer" (that will likely be deleted since it is "not an answer") that *this* answer was the solution that worked for them. Unfortunately, they don't have the rep to comment or upvote just yet, but I encouraged them to return to it when they do to upvote it. – NotTheDr01ds Dec 20 '22 at 08:48
  • Despite not changing anything in `/etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf` just re-installing the ntfs driver solved the problem for me. – nonNumericalFloat Jul 29 '23 at 20:46
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Format your disk with NTFS format.

sudo mkfs -t ntfs /dev/sdc1

If you see error like " mkfs: failed to execute mkfs.ntfs: No such file or directory " then, install ntfs-3g package > sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

After that, Format with NTFS, and, you'll access ntfs with no issue.

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