Unable to modify old Windows drives
Hello! I literally just installed Bazzite like 20 minutes ago, since i tried it a few weeks ago and loved it, anyway, just did a full install and I'm wanting to move all of my old Windows drives over, and just have them be accessible and stuff on Bazzite, I've got them mounted, but I'm not able to actually edit anything in them, it says I don't have permissions, and I really don't want to wipe the drives
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It might be because you haven’t shut down Windows properly
Windows doesn’t actually shut down properly on its own, it does this half hibernate sorta deal to cut down on boot times
Apparently if you hold shift while pressing shut down, it will properly shut down and free the NTFS drives you’re using for write access under Linux.
That being said though, it’s not recommended you use NTFS drives under Linux for anything like games because it can be a bit unreliable. The Bazzite docs say to avoid it iirc
I have fast startup disabled, but I'll take a look later when I restart my computer again
you also should try to migrate those drives from ntfs to btrfs
rsync -avh is your best friend for that