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 mount NTFS3 drives/partitions which I have full access to?
I have 2 OS on my computer. 1 archlinux and 1 windows.
I use NTFS3 and kernel 6.10
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
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NTFS large binary file recovery
I just happened to unwillingly delete an important, large, encrypted binary file on my NTFS device by calling C++ write functions with the w flag. All I have done so far is unmounting the device. The ...
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Trying to mount a drive, but Mint can't find it?
I'm trying to mount the NTFS partition as described here https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount-partition-with-ntfs-file-system-and-read-write-access
The system is installed on sda5 and mounting sda1 is ...
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System with / & /home on SSD freezes & lags on `ntfs-3g` HDD load
Again, the / and /home and all the software and cache and data folders are on SSD.
Everything just freezes with periodic (seconds to minutes!) updates: bar stop updating (custom eww one + shell ...
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Unreadable file as root on NTFS HD
I have an NTFS partition on an HD. This partition contains 6 files which I can't read in any way. I have tried reading them as root, doing chmod, chown and mount -o rw,remount ... nothing worked.
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Segmentation fault when running binaries from second drive
When I try to run any executable from my second (NTFS) drive, I get a segmentation fault. If I run the exact same executable from, for example, my home folder, it works just fine.
For example:
I ...
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Create Accessible Partition by Windows and Linux
I plan to dual boot windows and kde neon on my laptop. Since I will be doing cross-platform development I would like my code to be accessible by both linux and windows, therefore, I want to create a ...
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Files on Windows but Symlinks on Linux?
I've recently started dualbooting Pop_OS and Windows, and it's been generally difficult, but this issue is, at best, completely confounding. Some seemingly random files are displayed as broken ...
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Can rsync copy all files (including special ones like soft and hard links) from a ntfs partition to another one?
To make backups for my computer, I installed Xubuntu on an external hard disk to boot from and create images in another partition on the external hard disk. This also ensures that the file systems of ...
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How risky is it writing a mounted bitlocker decrypted windows ntfs partition
I setup up a multi os system with Windows11 and Linux.
I found out, that it's possible to mount bitlocker encrypted ntfs windows partition (/dev/sda3 as root) from linux:
cryptsetup bitlkDump /dev/...
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What is the best approach to backing up the /home directory to NTFS partition? [closed]
I would like to do backups of my /home partition of my computer with Linux (Lubuntu 20.04) on weekly basis. The catch is that the only extra hard drive I own is connected to Windows machine. It seems ...
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I deleted my backup.tar.gz instead of extracting it, can I restore it?
I created a backup with
# tar -cvpzf /run/media/user/XYZ/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/run/media/user/root/mnt /run/media/user/root/
now I need the backup and when I tried to extract the tar.gz archive I ...
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Large files end up corrupted when copying to a compressed NTFS3 win drive
I have two SSDs, one Linux, one Windows 11, and an HDD. I can copy normal-sized files just fine to each other, generally they are under 2GB.
Recently, I tried to copy a big file (32GB) from Linux (...
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How unformat ext4 SSD formatted to ntfs
In my dual boot PC (win 10 - Ubuntu 20.04) I have an 1TB SSD. It was meant as storage for the Ubuntu OS in ext4 Filesystem. Unfortunately by mistake I formatted it with windows to NTFS. The Format was ...
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Permissions and groups in fstab ignored
I need to read and write to an usb ntfs pendrive through www-data group (that has uid 33) so I have added
UUID=34A0456D004536A0 /home/mypath ntfs-3g rw,defaults,uid=1000,gid=33,dmode=770,fmode=660,...
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Can Wine and/or Playonlinux be used to fix ntfs errors the way Windows does?
Very often, when a ntfs external drive cannot be mounted in Linux because of some more or less obscure motive, simply plugging it onto Windows fixes it, even without running the tool to scan and fix ...
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Ubuntu only allows FAT32 and not NTFS
I currently find myself in a desperate situation. I'm trying to boot from the pendrive on my computer installed with Ubuntu 22.10, it is not recognizing my pendrive formatted with the NTFS file system,...
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Using GParted to remove EFI partition of SSD on USB
I have a problem with GParted not being able to complete an operation.
Background:
In brief:
I have a 2Tb M.2 SSD drive that was running Windows 11. Windows suffered a fatal registry failure and ...
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how to copy symlinks without dereferening them from an external hard drive (NTFS)?
I am moving my files from one computer to another via an external hard drive formatted with NTFS. I have a folder called "library" with many PDFs. This folder contains quite a few symlinks ...
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Formatting the same drive with gparted: original NTFS=232.28MB used | Ext4= 1.92 GB used Why?
I'm formatting an external hard drive with gparted.
The original NTFS read 232.28 MB used.
Now, with Ext4, it reads 1.92 GB used.
Questions:
Why?
Is there a better file system I should use for ...
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What's the difference between ntfs-3g and lowntfs-3g?
I've been having some performance issues with games on my NTFS drive. I share a steam library between Linux and Windows, which resides on a PCIe4 NVME, NTFS formatted. Running e.g Baldur's Gate 3 of ...
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Ntfsfix "Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk." even after chkdsk
Recently on my NTFS drive I encountered that I can't do any write: remove or create things. I ran ntfsfix /dev/sda3.
Not mounted
Mounting volume... Error opening read-only '/dev/sda3': Permission ...
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I was extending an ntfs partition in gparted and right in the middle of the process, power went out
I was extending an ntfs partition in gparted and right in the middle of the process, power went out.
Now my files can't be opened though I can still see they exist in the partition. I went to see if ...
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How to fix external drive in Linux the way Windows does automatically
I have unplugged an older 500 GB HD NTFS external drive without unmounting it first and then it couldn't be mounted in Linux. I have tried on different machines but the same error occurred. I was ...
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Why is NTFS has a dirty mark and why can't NTFS3 mount dirty NTFS partitions?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS#Unable_to_mount_with_ntfs3_with_partition_marked_dirty
When a NTFS partition is marked dirty, NTFS3 cannot mount this on linux
But NTFS-3G (and also Windows) can
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How to solve ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error for specific directory
I have a 5TB external drive, with two partitions. Suddenly one of the partitions gives me this error data: unknown error when mounting /dev/sda1. I solved this error based on this answer.
After ...
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Linux removable drive stuck problem when reading large number of files
I have several USB removable drives that I have connected to my single-board computer to use as a NAS. The operating system I am using is Armbian, which is a Debian-like system.
Ok, this is the ...
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rsync permission denied - but they have full 777?
It is getting late and I am loosing my mind ...
I have a data drive (NTFS) which I used to share in an Windows/Ubuntu dual boot system. After an upgrade it is currently Windows 10 and Ubuntu running ...
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Recovering data from NTFS after SSD ran out of spare blocks
I had the main SSD for a computer run out of spare blocks and thus refuse any/all write operations by Windows. This led to all the problems you'd expect, and a lot of frustration.
I've since replaced ...
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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 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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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/yezhik/...
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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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