NTFS “The disk contains an unclean file system” in ubuntu system

Faysal Ahmed
1 min readOct 13, 2015

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When mounting if you come across this type of error

Error mounting /dev/sda5 at /media/faysal/CEA0BC2EA0BC1EC1: Command-line `mount -t “ntfs” -o “uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177” “/dev/sda5” “/media/faysal/CEA0BC2EA0BC1EC1”’ exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda5’: Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
read-only with the ‘ro’ mount option.

You can open terminal and type

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdXY

where sdXY may be sda5 (against the error message I have given).

Hope that will help

reference:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/462381/cant-mount-ntfs-drive-the-disk-contains-an-unclean-file-system

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