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How to solve: Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately?

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Problem Scenario:

I have a NTFS drive which is automounted every-time I start Ubuntu 11.04. I created this automount using fstab (Click Here to know how to automount windows partition in Ubuntu?). The problem is when I try to delete a file/directory (using delete button) it gives the following error:

Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately?

And if I select Yes, it permanently deletes the file/directory without moving it to trash (Permanently deleting i.e. Shift+Delete is not a good idea as you can accidentaly delete a wrong file).

Reason:

You might have noticed a folder .trash-1000 into your NTFS partition, External Drives etc when you are in . This folder is responsible for keeping the deleted files in trash so that you can recover them from trash. In other words, this .trash folder lets you move the files into trash. (The Windows counterpart of .trash is $RECYCLE.BIN which you can see in your Windows partitions/USB drives when you are in Linux). The 1000 in the folder name tells the owner of the trash folder which in this case is user with uid=1000 (This user, with uid=1000, is the first user you create while installing Linux and it has admin privileges i.e. super user rights).

Now. when I check my auto-mounted NTFS partition (/dev/sda5) I found no .trash folder in their. Why? Probably because there is something wrong with the ownership of the partition. This is the content of my fstab file:

sudo less /etc/fstab 
#adding ntfs partition for auto mouNt /dev/sda5 
UUID=01CB76F7C2628FB0 /home/takshak/mount/WindowsDrive ntfs defaults 0 0

Solution:

What I did is I edited the fstab file in /etc folder and added the uid=1000 with the NTFS partition in somewhat following manner:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab 
#adding ntfs partition for auto mouNt /dev/sda5 
UUID=01CB76F7C2628FB0 /home/takshak/mount/WindowsDrive ntfs defaults,uid=1000 0 0

And then I unmounted and mounted it back by using this command:

sudo umount /dev/sda5 && sudo mount -a

Possible Error:

The unmount and mount command may result in the following error:

uumount: /home/takshak/mount/WindowsDrive: device is busy.
        (In some cases useful info about processes that use
         the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))

To solve it, check if the drive is in use (In my case it was being used by Torrent client). Close all the programs which are using the drive.

Further Solution:

It might happen that just adding uid=1000 will not work. What next then? Well you can try adding the group id ‘gid‘ along with uid. Generally gid=1000 works in most of the cases but even if that doesn’t work then find out your gid:

cat /etc/group | grep plugdev Output:plugdev:x:46:takshak

So here my gid is 46 (takshak is my username). Add it to the fstab file in similar fashion:

UUID=01CB76F7C2628FB0 /home/takshak/mount/WindowsDrive ntfs defaults,uid=1000,gid=46 0 0

Hope it has solved your problem. Question, suggestion and feedback are welcomed. Don’t forget to like/vote the post as a token of appreciation. Enjoy :)

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How to mount a windows partition on Linux automatically on each start up

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In Ubuntu (and other LiUbuntunux OS) , the external drives are mounted automatically but the Windows drives (NTFS partitions) are required to be mounted manually in each login. Though this mounting is just a click away, in some situation one requires the other partitions to be mounted automatically in each start up. In this tutorial I’ll try to explain the procedure to mount a Windows partition automatically on each start up. Again, the tutorial is performed on Ubuntu but most of the commands are applicable to other major Linux OS. Please follow these steps:

Step 1.

Check what is the name of the drive/partition you want to automatically mount. The name is like /dev/sda. Check the partition with NTFS format. Check the size and otherthing to select the partition you want to mount. Go to the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and enter this command:

sudo fdisk -l

For me the command output looks like this:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 13 13417 107667456 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 13418 38914 204798797 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 13418 26165 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NT

Step 2.

Now we need the UUID of the desired drive/partition. The UUID can be obtained by using the following command:

sudo blkid

The command output looks like this:

/dev/sda1: LABEL=”System Reserved” UUID=”E400CABD00CA95C8″ TYPE=”ntfs”
/dev/sda2: UUID=”E61CD55A1CD525F9″ TYPE=”ntfs”
/dev/sda5: UUID=”01CB76F7C2628FB0″ TYPE=”ntfs”
/dev/sda6: UUID=”01CB76F7F289ADE0″ TYPE=”ntfs”
/dev/sda7: UUID=”b9a176e1-d122-4ea7-815b-555063d

Step 3.

Now make a directory in Ubuntu where you want to mount the drive. Lets say you want to mount the Windows drive in root folder. We will create a directory name mount and under that a directory say WindowsDrive. For this use the command:

mkdir /mount/WindowsDrive

Step 4.

The mount information can then be added to fstab file which stores the information about the storage devices. In the terminal enter:

gksu gedit /etc/fstab

The command will open the fstab file. In here, at the end of the file add this line like this:

UUID=insert_the_UUID_here /mount/WindowsDrive ntfs defaults 0 0

Note: Replace the insert_the_UUID_here with UUID you noted from the blkid command. Save and exit. Now, in terminal enter:

sudo mount -a

Troubleshoot:

The following errors may be generated:

1.

“The file system wasn’t safely closed on Windows. Fixing.
fuse: failed to access mountpoint /mnt/win7: No such file or directory”

2.

“Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel’, but failed: Failed to create file ‘/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.CNQ0UV’: No such file or directory”

The reason (in both cases) is that it is looking for the directory specified in the fstab file and cannot find it. Check the path and verify that the directory exists at the specified path. If the directory /root/.local/share doesn’t exist, make it manually.

Hope this article helped you. Suggestions, feedbacks and tiny thanks is always welcomed. Enjoy :)

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