BlogLinux Mint. Fixing Unclean File System Error When Mounting an NTFS PartitionIf you are running a dual boot (Windows/Linux Mint) computer you may want to share data between both OS systems, so that you may use it regardless of the OS you have booted with. The easiest way to do it to create a new NTFS partition called DATA. Windows and Linux Mint will both recognize the partition, and will mount it during boot time. However sometimes it may be annoying that the DATA partition gets mounted as read only, instead of read and write partition. Digging deeper and trying to unmount and mount the partition yourself you will find the following message: Language: html
The reason is that in order to boot Windows faster Microsoft introduced a new feature called Fast Startup. During a normal shut down all components (CPU, RAM, CD-Rom and hard disks) are powered off. But in fast start up, some system information is saved to a metadata file, which is later used to restore the system status faster. This metadata file causes Linux to mount the partition in protected mode and you cannot mount it (without being root). SolutionTo fix the issue unmount the partitin and run the following commands Language: html
The command will output something similar to: Language: html
Now remount the partitions and you are done Language: html
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