After installation I can only see one partition and its a read only

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Hi, I have just started using linux and i installed manajaro xfce in my laptop. I installed manjaro in my ssd and everything was fine during installation. it was recognizing my 1 tb hdd and 120 gb ssd. When i had windows i partitioned this hdd into two drives (approx 200gb and rest). Now when manjaro is installed i can only see my single partition(approx 200gb one) and the other one is showing but i cant access it neither its showing its space.
can only access the drive labeled as “Work” and that too is read only, i mean i can see the contents of it but theres a lock icon on each folder.
This question maybe be silly but seriously idk how to resolve it, Please help

i did “sudo parted -i”, im attaching the output hope this helps.

Model: ATA ST1000LM035-1RK1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      17.4kB  1066kB  1049kB               LDM metadata partition
 2      1066kB  16.8MB  15.7MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      16.8MB  1000GB  1000GB  ntfs         LDM data partition


Model: RPFTJ128PDD2EWX (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 128GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End    Size   File system  Name  Flags
 1      2097kB  317MB  315MB  fat32              boot, esp
 2      317MB   128GB  128GB  ext4         root
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Looks like a LDM “Dynamic Disks”, so called Windows Software Raid. No idea if it works, but here is a tool called ldmtool: Dynamic disks - ArchWiki

Anyway, it would better to convert it back to a Basis Partition for better support on Linux.

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Hi @4rdpr3fect, and welcome!

In order for us, or anyone for that matter, to be able to provide assistance, more information is necessary. To that end, please see:

From what it looks like, your 1TB only has 1x1TB partition. So I’m guessing it’s split into 2 logical partitions. So please also provide the output for:

sudo fdisk -l

Also, I see that it’s NTFS, which is probably the cause of it being read-only. So please also provide the output for:

sudo mount

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Thanks for the tip @Mirdarthos
Here’s the output for the commands you asked for

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 119.24 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk model: RPFTJ128PDD2EWX                         
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 461ECDF4-F331-8646-9DD6-1DBA86BBE5F0

Device          Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1   4096    618495    614400   300M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 618496 250067789 249449294 118.9G Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: ST1000LM035-1RK1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B4EBF99C-FF3D-433D-BD79-0EE257CB5163

Device     Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1     34       2081       2048     1M Microsoft LDM metadata
/dev/sda2   2082      32767      30686    15M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3  32768 1953525134 1953492367 931.5G Microsoft LDM data

Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.

sudo mount

proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=5055384k,nr_inodes=1263846,mode=755,inode64)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755,inode64)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=11605)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,size=5096556k,nr_inodes=1048576,inode64)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1019308k,nr_inodes=254827,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/sda3 on /run/media/shivamm/Work type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2)
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Based on @megavolt’s answer, install ldmtool:

pamac build ldmtool

And see if there any disk groups:

ldmtool scan

I’ve never worked with this, so I don’t know if it’s necessary to use sudo:

sudo ldmtool scan
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I installed ldmtool
output:

[
  "12f76c3a-b649-11ea-9ef3-3c91806d25d4"
]
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And how would i convert it back? any ideas. If there’s any thread or a link for me to follow it please attach it here.
Thanks!!

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I am not an expert here, but this should work on windows: Convert to Dynamic Disk | Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Without Losing Data – EaseUS

Since it is a Manjaro Forum, there will be no Windows Support.

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To see what disks are in the group:

ldmtool show diskgroup 12f76c3a-b649-11ea-9ef3-3c91806d25d4

As I mentioned, I’ve never done this, so this is purely based on the link @megavolt provided. His link to convert it back might also be a good link, I don’t have ANY idea!

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seems like i’ll have to install windows merge both the partitions and then come back to manjaro. Is that what are you suggesting?

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Here you go, It shows its empty

{
  "name" : "DESKTOP-3MEH3NQ-Dg0",
  "guid" : "12f76c3a-b649-11ea-9ef3-3c91806d25d4",
  "volumes" : [
    "Volume1",
    "Volume2"
  ],
  "disks" : [
    "Disk1"
  ]
}
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Yeah, ldmtool on linux can ONLY read and write on these partitions. So yes. That must be done on Windows.

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That seems like a viable option if nothing works

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Well, unless you’ve got space to backup everything, restore/convert/change the partitioning, then restoring the backups, it might be your ONLY option, not just viable.

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Did read the wiki article btw?

sudo ldmtool create all

ls /dev/mapper/

sudo mkdir -pv /media/work

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/mapper/<LDM volume> /media/work
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I tried it already idk why its says its unable to create volume volume 1 is disk group

Unable to create volume Volume1 in disk group 12f76c3a-b649-11ea-9ef3-3c91806d25d4: ldm_vol_DESKTOP-3MEH3NQ-Dg0_Volume1: Stacking NODE_DEL [verify_udev]
Unable to create volume Volume2 in disk group 12f76c3a-b649-11ea-9ef3-3c91806d25d4: ldm_vol_DESKTOP-3MEH3NQ-Dg0_Volume2: Stacking NODE_DEL [verify_udev]
[]
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Sorry, no idea then :man_shrugging:

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I installed gparted to check if its detecting my storage or not and it work perfectly fine

remove the space in the link below to see
imgur. com/a/K4LcDJq

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@Mirdarthos @megavolt any thoughts on this?

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:point_up_2: this…

:man_shrugging:

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