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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).

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Having a hard time with Calibre (and my HDD) (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve recently switched to Linux (Tumbleweed) and the other day i was setting up Calibre. I already have a library on my HDD so i proceeded to simply import the existing one. No problems at all, i’ve even added a couple ebooks. Turned off the pc and went to sleep. The next day i wanted to read a book, opened up Calibre and an error appeared: filesystem on my HDD is read only. What?? Since when? No idea what happened. Any suggestions?

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[–] some_random_nick 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you still have Windows i.e. you dual boot, then Windows might have taken control over the HDD. A similar thing happened to me. If that is your case, you need to go back into Winodws, open the command prompt and type in shutdown /s /f /t 0. This is caused by having fastboot enabled which makes Windows never fully shutdown when powered off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

After a couple of hours trying random commands in the console i’ve found ntfsfix and it worked. Apprently there were Windows files in the cache of the hdd