this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
86 points (90.6% liked)

Linux

48153 readers
658 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

NTFS is proprietary FS that works on Linux thanks to great reverse-engineering efforts. To make this more fair, try accessing ext4 partition from Windows. Oh, it can't even recognize it. Except that ext4 is open-source, so it wouldn't even require reverse-engineering.

That said, have you fully shutdown Windows? You generally get write access out of the box nowadays, but only if Windows is fully shutdown. And clicking "Shut down" does not properly shut it down unless you disable fast startup.
Another method is to choose a "Restart" in Windows, and then instead of continuing with the restart, choose Linux on bootloader screen after you get there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm mostly just speaking to the process. I can right click and mount the drive without a problem, but there's no way to auto mount it on startup without editing the fstab file and finding the uuid of the drive through the terminal (at least as far as I could tell) all of the functionality is there, which is rather laudable, but the process is unapproachable for a lot of people.

O and yea, I did have to disable some fast startup setting in windows to get the write access, I forgot about that. But yeah, that one's on Windows.

edit: sorry, this was actually pretty irrelevant to what I actually said, which was just about the write access which you pointed out was a windows issue. I got mixed up with my replies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

but there’s no way to auto mount it on startup without editing the fstab file and finding the uuid of the drive through the terminal (at least as far as I could tell) all of the functionality is there, which is rather laudable, but the process is unapproachable for a lot of people.

I haven't tested it, but gnome-disks (pre-installed in e.g.: Ubuntu and Linux Mint) does have that option:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

ahh, that's good to know, thanks.