You can adjust permissions for a drive, folder, or whatever in Files. You go to the drive with the read only access. Right click. Go to properties and then to permissions. Report back if the permissions or the option to change permissions are grayed out.
Regarding the auto mount a good guide was written over on the Bazzite guides: GNOME Disks Auto Mount Guide - Bazzite Documentation I recently had to use this to assume control of my data drive which is shared amongst my multiple Linux installs.
The Gnome disk in Bluefin should yield similar results.
Reach out here if you have any questions. I will try and keep an eye on the thread. May be a bit slow though as I am time limited this week.
I have the same issue, the strange thing is that it was working last week, something must have changed. I’m now unable to mount external disk (in my case bitlocker protected) anything than as read only.
I have fiddled with the gnome file explorer and I tried to change the permissions there. The strange thing is that it shows a work in progress and that is changing permissions, but Even directly after I still can’t delete any file/folder.
I have seen this before, but it’s been awhile since I tried to troubleshoot it. Is the system still capable of dual booting and can still boot into Windows? If so is it possible fast startup was enabled on Windows? If so I believe Windows marks all NTFS drives as read only when not in a boot state.
It could be something else with Gnome Disks though. I currently don’t have a dual-boot PC to test and confirm.
HI there,
actually I’m not dual booting with windows. I have 2 sdd left that were initially formatted in windows 10, no encryption, and I can’t access these drives yet.
I had an NVME drive that I could format in Bluefin, and I can access it without problems.
I’m gonna check the BIOS and let you know about my boot settings.
Unfortunately I can’t access the BIOS in my system. The grub seems to start too aggressively before I have the chance to boot into BIOS.
I tried with “ujust bios” but I got this message: Rebooting to legacy BIOS from OS is not supported.
If you know of a way for me to edit the grub configuration and add a boot to BIOS option, please let me know.
Hey everyone, I did find a solution, but it was a hackey hardware solution.
Seen that I had read access to my drives I managed to install a new ssd drive to my pc, then I managed to copy all the files from the read only drives. Finally I reformatted the problematic drives and moved the files back to the newly formatted disks. The permission problems were solved.