Questions tagged [ntfs]
NTFS (New Technology File System) is the standard file system of Windows. Use this tag in questions about using NTFS partitions and tools on your system.
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How to enable all locales (character encodings) on Debian 11 (over SSH, in Bash)?
I am unsure if I should not better ask:
How to display Windows UTF-16 encoding in Linux?
Since I just found out that Windows uses UTF-16LE to be exact:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/66072117/1997354
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Hard Drive not showing
I've got an external hard drive, formatted as NTFS and showing fine on a Windows PC. When I plug it into my Arch Linux laptop, it doesn't show with fdisk or lsblk. If running dmesg, I've got this :
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ncdu: What's going on with this second size column?
I've never seen ncdu do this. What's the matter with the red S and extra size columns?
This is a Windows root (NTFS, mounted with ntfs-3g), so I assume it has something to do with NTFS. But the sizes ...
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How can I mount a functional drive readable by SMART, disk utilities, etc., but that issues an error on at least two Debian 11 installs at mount?
Error mounting /dev/sd* at /media/default/* wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sd, missing codepage or helper program or other error
After adding a couple of hard drives to one of my ...
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How to optimize NTFS performance on Linux?
I am running Ubuntu 22.04.2 on a laptop with the following specifications:
SSD: HP S700 SSD
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ
RAM: 16GB
Kernel: 5.19.0-32-generic
All system packages are updated to the latest ...
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Can't mount NTFS hard disk (LDM data partition, correct way to automatically create and mount an LDM at startup)
Install ldmtool and libldm packages
Create /etc/systemd/system/ldmtool.service file
Paste the text into file:
[Unit]
Description= Windows Dynamic Disk LDMtool
After=network.target
[Service]
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How to enabling big_writes option during mounting of ntfs drives in kubuntu 22.10
During copying of big files i am suffering from high cpu usage. I read multiple linux forums saying adding big_writes flag during mount of ntfs drives results is less cpu usage.
Below is my ...
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Permission denied as root when reading a file that is world readable
I am booted into a Kubuntu 22.04 live USB. I have mounted an Windows NTFS partition at /mnt/os using sudo mount -o ro /dev/sda2 /mnt/os. I am trying to copy some files off, but get permission denied, ...
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Is there a Linux tool that can automatically syncronise (monitor) two folders on local drives with different filesystems?
I have Linux computer with external NTFS drive. I need one of the directories of the internal drive (ext4) being automatically syncronised with an external drive directory.
The complication stems from ...
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Rsync NTFS and SMB share not working
I'm struggling with my rsync script to sync data (on Ubuntu) from an NTFS drive to a NAS share.
What I do:
Mount the NAS share:
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=$DST_USER,password=$DST_USERPW,rw,uid=$...
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Why is the ext4 file system so sensitive to crashes? [closed]
I've been using Linux on ext4 file systems for many years - before that I used Windows on NTFS for many years. The ext4 file system strikes me as much more sensitive to crashes than NTFS. If I had a ...
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How to make a drive mounted in terminal appear on GUI?
I had a NTFS formatted drive that when plugged in, the system automatically mounted to read-only so I had to use the terminal.
mkdir /mnt/newntfsdrive
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /mnt/newntfsdrive
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Device name changes without any indication resulted of massive data copying
I have Linux machine with two external ntfs-formatted hard drives. One of the drives contains data, the other one is supposed to be a back-up.
I run Rsync to copy data from the first drive to the ...
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Slow reading of millions of files in Fuseblk partitions shared over NFS
I have two Linux systems: NFSServer1 (RHEL) and NFSClient1 (Ubuntu).
On NFSServer1, ntfs-3g driver and ldmtool is installed. The NTFS device partitions are mounted by executing the command:
mount -t ...
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Unable to View Files in Folder
Recently got a new external drive named "ShowDrive" below. However I'm unable to view any of the contents within the "TV" Folder. When I try to ls the folder i'm just presented ...
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Current Linux support for symbolic links (symlinks) for NTFS 3.1
Symbolic links have been expanded in Windows, previously available only through administrative privileges. Linux is documented as supporting NTFS 3.1, the version shipped in Windows 10.
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USB Drive is not detecting and is in read only mode with error NTFS signature is missing
command :
sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdb
Output :
/dev/sdb:
setting readonly to 0 (off)
readonly = 1 (on)
By any chance it will be turned off ? If yes how can we?
Issue:
USB is not detected. Unable to ...
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Can't read/write external HDD created in Windows 7 (NTFS)
I need to have access to my external HHD created in Windows 7. I installed ntfs-3g, now I can see it mounted but I don't have access to it. There's an error: "Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/...
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File timestamps on different OSes
Are file timestamps (Created/birth, accessed and modified) the same on different OSes? Particularly on Windows and Linux.
I downloaded a file which is modified on Windows and its timestamps looked ...
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How to mount customised NTFS external disk in Ubuntu?
A few years ago, I customised my external hard disk partitions using a Windows PC. All of them are NTFS. For one partition where I plan to have my collections of old movies, I remember changing the ...
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ddrescue imaged my partition with no errors, but I can't mount the image as a loop device
I have a suspect ntfs drive with 2 partitions (from a win2k machine that has stopped fully booting except into safe mode). I copied the 2 partitions separately using ddrescue.
The first was ...
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Are Superblock and Master File Tables the same thing?
What is the difference between a superblock and a Master File Table (MFT)? Both seem to be tables that keep track of files within a filesystem, but are there other differences? The only difference I ...
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ntfsundelete not reading entire partition
To avoid XY problem, here's the background of the problem I am facing...
I have an external hard drive which should have hundreds of files and suddenly, all of them disappeared (I have no idea why).
I ...
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RST RAID-0 NTFS partitions not available to mount
I've a double boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu mate on separate disks (F8 boot select).
I've a RAID-0 block made in Windows 10 on RST that is working fine as secondary disk. This block is not meant to boot, ...
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Directory on an NTFS drive suddenly became hidden and doesn't list but it exist
An NTFS drive is mounted which i use as storage, i was copying some files to some of the directories in the drive and before i realised one of the directory named Java went hiding ( it doesn't appear ...
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How to recover an iSCSI disk
I run an iSCSI disk on a Linux server (RHEL7). The disk has a normal ext4 partition containing a loop device called disk01.img, which is mapped to a virtual disk with a Windows NTFS file system. All ...
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Read-only NTFS flash drive refuses to format
I have this SanDisk Cruzer Edge where it's a write-protected NTFS partition that I got from my dad as I needed a flash drive.
I tried using GParted, didn't work, I saw something online that used the ...
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Using ntfs-3g, how to parse Windows extended attributes automatically?
Using xattrs, one can access Windows extended attributes using the following command
getfattr -h -n system.ntfs_ea Ntfs_Mount_Point/some_file
The problem is instead of an attribute list, it returns a ...
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Disk showing in windows but not in Ubuntu
New to linux but have been researching this for a few evenings without success.
I have two disks in my machine. I wiped windows and installed Ubuntu on one of the disks. I can't seem to access the ...
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ddrescue: Failing HD with 2 NTFS partitions
I'll try to describe my situation as precisely as possible.
TLDR :
SATA 2To HDD with 2 partitions failed
refused to boot
plugged from usb through adapter and booted.
Disk is shown as /dev/sde,
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Restore damaged folder inodes in ddrescue image
I restored my failing external ntfs hdd using ddrescue, around 80% of the data is restored, the rest seems to be bad blocks. I can mount the created image file and ubuntu detects it and shows the ...
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cancelled cp + du between ntfs drives caused data loss?
I am using Mac OSX and working with two external NTFS hard drives (HD1, HD2) using the Mounty tool to mount them in read+write mode. I needed to move two large folders from HD1 to HD2.
I opened one ...
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SSD doesn't respond to anything after trying to reformat broken NTFS on it
A week ago or so my windows 10 completely died and took my windows apps partition with it. I was however able to access all data from within my linux, so I did what any person would do and copied any ...
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Query detected badblocks from NTFS
When creating an ntfs partition with mkfs.ntfs, it does zeroing and badblocks scanning by default. But unlike e2fsck -fccky it does not output how many badblocks it actually found.
I would like to get ...
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How can a disk without a partition be "partitioned" on Windows without losing data?
I have a 1TB portable hard drive that I use for backups.
The entire drive (/dev/sdb) has been formatted as an ext4 filesystem.
But I am now on Windows and I need to get back those files...
I tried ...
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How can I mass-set the permissions of existing files in the new ntfs3 driver?
I've been using ntfs-3g for mounting for years now with the umask=022 option to grant my user read-write access on NTFS filesystem. I switched to the new ntfs3 driver (on Arch Linux, kernel 5.15.4-...
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Cannot change the ownership mounting ntfs drive
Why I cannot change the ownership on mounting ntfs drive?
I give uid=1000,gid=1000, etc in my /etc/fstab file, but found it is not working. So I'm testing it out on command line:
root@host:~# mount | ...
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No space left on device in Linux although enough disk space and inode available
I ran into this problem when copying a lot of files using tar -cf - * | (cd ../bar; tar -xf - );.
I did search on the issue, and found the below suggestions, none of which worked for me. This problem ...
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Mounting NTFS partition by fstab at boot still works correctly, but process never dies
Why would a mount.ntfs operation never finish (continue to burn CPU) if the partition seems to be correctly mounted? How could this be debugged?
On Linux Mint 19.3, I've had an fstab (below) operating ...
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Can't make an ext4-partition on a specific raid
I have a hardware raid-1 on two WDC-SSDs with 500GB on each SSD. The raid controller is a Marvell-88SE9128 via two GSATA connections (the controller is directly on the motherboard and not an ePCI ...
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How can I change the permission of an external hard drive and access it?
I try to access an external hard drive with an ntfs filesystem from NixOS.
Is it correct that I have to create a mounting point? Where do you usually create a mounting point?
sudo mkdir -p /media/b/...
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No write permission to drive (even as root) on dual-boot system
I'm running a dual-boot setup with Windows 10 and Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon and encountered the problem that when I'm booted into Linux, I can mount and read drives without problem, but I can't write ...
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Does Ubuntu support working with compressed Windows files?
In Windows 10 pro, there is an option "Compress this drive to save disk space". If I were to enable that option, will Ubuntu be able to open the files like normal? And is there any side ...
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recovering an overwritten ntfs partition with dd command
I accidentally overwrote an NTFS partition with an iso image with the dd command. I am trying to recover NTFS partition with testdisk, but after disk selection (1.8TB), partition table type selection (...
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Can not change file permissions even as root in USB/Pen-drive [duplicate]
I am unable to change the file permission of a file located on my NTFS style partition USB neither as Owner/user nor as root Running ll command
Running sudo chmod 774 -v insertion.cpp
Again running ...
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Copying big file from external drive (NTFS) fails
I have a backup of a vdi file on an external 2TB hard disk with plenty of space. It's 25GB heavy. I was able to copy TO it obviously.
Now I am trying to copy it back to a new laptop I got for work, ...
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No space left on device, space and inodes available on NTFS drive
When I try to make new directories (with mkdir) or files (even empty ones with touch) on an external NTFS hard drive that I use for personal backups, filesystem operations fail with No space left on ...
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Allow all users to use chmod on a NTFS file system
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I have a dual-boot PC, Ubuntu / Windows 10, that share access to a NTFS disk partition (mounted as /DATA/ in Ubuntu).
I need to avoid the "Permission denied" error when a chmod ...
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Recover Formatted NTFS Partion
Please don't mark this as duplicate -
I have read many other questions and proposed answers and can't seem to get them to work.
I have 3 1TB hard drives, 2 SSDs and 1 HDD. I accidentally deleted the ...
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What am I doing wrong when formatting my flash drive to NTFS?
Before the attempt to format a flash drive:
$ sudo fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sdc: 7.32 GiB, 7864320000 bytes, 15360000 sectors
Disk model: DataTraveler 3.0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
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