Atom Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 (edited) I have Houdini up and running on Ubuntu. All my previous work was created on a 1TB drive that was formatted on a Windows 10 system. While I can see files on the drive and Houdini can load my HIP files, I can't actually save anything on the drive. Does anyone know how to enable write access to a NTFS drive on Ubuntu? Edited December 15, 2017 by Atom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 (edited) Not sure but stackexchange or google is the goto place for Linux questions. You'll encounter quite a few! Iirc fat* is the only interchange format available Edited December 14, 2017 by tar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 Thanks, my googles have been leading me there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 NTFS isn't a Linux native file system. I strongly encourage you to use a Linux native file system. Seriously. Recent versions of Ubuntu come with ntfs-3g by default which will let you read and write NTFS so it's likely a permission issue, not anything related to the fact that it's NTFS. If the permissions are sane then it's likely the NTFS volume is damaged (ntfs-3g will mount as read only if serious errors are found). More reasons why you shouldn't use NTFS on Linux... ntfs-3g is implemented with FUSE which is user space framework instead of kernel space so it's stupid slow compared to native file systems Linux has no comprehensive NTFS check utility so errors go unnoticed and can compound Some applications use extended attributes which can't be stored in foreign file systems like NTFS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted December 15, 2017 Author Share Posted December 15, 2017 (edited) I am currently copying all the files to an external drive and then I will try to format that NTFS drive natively. That is the ext4 format right? Then I'll copy things back. I notice the Files app does not have a format option. Is that something gparted can do? Edited December 15, 2017 by Atom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted December 15, 2017 Author Share Posted December 15, 2017 I have managed to transfer all my files off of this problem drive. I have now created a new partition ext/ext4 but I still can't write anything to this drive. Do I have to format the drive? What program do I use to format the drive? gparted does not seem to have a format option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted December 15, 2017 Author Share Posted December 15, 2017 I finally found a solution. sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /media/banedesh/Storage Where media/banedesh/Storage is the mount point on your system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Looks like you got it all working. That's good. Note that Linux assumes nothing about permissions. Windows assumes a lot. That chown command changes the owner of the directory (which is the entire drive in this case). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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