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I have shared an NTFS disk between Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Windows 10 (I use it to store data which I want to access from both systems (music, documents...)). When I am in Windows 10 I can RWX over all the files and folders with no problem but in Ubuntu I am unable to get it properly working.

  1. I managed to get automatic mount running according to this: Automatic NTFS Partition Mount on Startup
  2. I managed to fix error "Read-only file system" when deleting files by remounting according to this: How to make read-only file system writable? but it is not persistent and when I delete some file for example it just reappears after refreshing the file browser window.

According to ls -l the drive owner is root and all the files seem to have all the permissions even before remounting (in the second step) which is also weird.

I need to make all permissions working correctly and persistent for the drive. I've read some other answers to similar problems but I was unable to get any further (make it work).

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Please make sure you have disabled Fast Boot in your BIOS/Firmware setup, and also disabled Hibernation and Fast Startup in Windows, as they can cause this issue. As cl-netbox wrote in How to disable hibernation and fastboot from windows so dual boot works in Ubuntu 14.04 (with specific keystrokes and commands added here for ease of use), you must boot into Windows, disable hibernation and Fast Boot. How?

Open command prompt as administrator and execute:

powercfg /h off

Open the "old" version of Windows Control Panel with Win+R. Go to the Power Settings and uncheck Fast Startup. If you don't see Fast Startup, enable Show Hidden Settings.

Shutdown the machine completely, do NOT reboot, by tapping Win then click on the power icon at far lower left; hold down Shift and click Shut down.

Boot into your BIOS/Firmware settings (they key for which which varies on different PCs) and select Ubuntu as default system. Now you can select the OS to boot from GRUB menu.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/477733/is-it-necessary-to-disable-fast-boot-in-windows-to-dual-boot-with-linuxefistub/477740#477740 also provides useful detail.

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