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I thought it was us old folks in a hurry - the young ones don't know how little time they really have ;)

I have been trying to solve someone's read-only partition problem

the person is using Ubuntu on a computer that previously had Windows 10

@Zanna oh.. in Ask Ubuntu or real life?

@technastic_tc they have emailed me

@Zanna oh...

(I think Ask Ubuntu is real life!)

@Zanna haha..

So did you fix the problem?

they are using Ubuntu on a computer that previously had Windows 10, and it no longer has Windows 10. They have two NTFS partitions on a separate storage device to the system and those partitions are stubbornly readonly

@Zanna hmm..

when they try to remount them using ntfs-3g, they get a familiar error...

$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sdb5 '/media/kalyanaraaman/New Volume2'
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb5': Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
read-only with the 'ro' mount option.

we have got answers about this, and they say one should boot into Windows and shut down fully

but there is no Windows system

how do we fix this problem without a Windows system?

I think we must have questions/answers about this but I haven't found them

I will post a question if needed, but I need help to refine my enquiry

because I do not have the system with me to test

@technastic_tc not yet

I hope heynnema can help you..

This won't be really helpful, but I think that I too had this problem some years ago. I ended up reinstalling Windows just to properly shutdown the system. :/

@BeastOfCaerbannog yeah that might well be the best option!

what is going on.

Hope COVID will over soon

hope dies always at last.