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Wifi_Fanatux

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Can not mount NTFS partition during installation

carbon-1-260211-amd64.hybrid.iso
After setting up partitions using the manual partitioning during the installation process, an error occurs stating that the installer can not mount the NTFS partition. The NTFS partition is NOT the Windows partition, but it is a separate partition that I use to share files between both my windows and linux systems. The calamares installer on other distros has no problem setting this up. Is this a bug or is it prevented by design to protect from inadvertently writing over a Windows partition?

PackRat

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Re: Can not mount NTFS partition during installation

Dual/multi booting? Or i the shared partition an external drive?

Can you mount that partition manually from the live session?

Windows may have left the NTFS partition in a hibernated state last time it shut down. You can try doing a full shutdown from Windows by signing out of the user account then press and hold the Shift key while selecting Shutdown. That should do a complete shutdown of Windows and Debian installer should mount the partition. Usually need to disable Fast Startup in Windows to avoid this error.

Not sure what the calamares installer does. There is a program called ntfsfix that will clear the hibernation flag. Calamares may include that program and run it if it encounters a hibernation flag.

Is there a lot of shared data on that partition? For sharing data between WIndows and Linux, it would be better to format that partition as exfat.

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Wifi_Fanatux

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Re: Can not mount NTFS partition during installation

Dual/multi booting:
Windows 11, 2 Linux distros

Windows may have left the NTFS partition in a hibernated state last time it shut down:
Not possible; I haven't used Windows for about a month, and have installed several Linux distros all having the ability to mount the shared NTFS partition including after reboots and automatic mounting.

Usually need to disable Fast Startup in Windows to avoid this error:
I have always permanently disabled fast start in Windows on all of my dual boot systems. I rarely use Windows and thus have no use for the hibernating shut down.

it would be better to format that partition as exfat:
exFat files can not be write protected. I'm actually considering it, but not because of the mount problem. I would prefer to find out whether there is a bug so that I might try out Bunsenlab in a later release.