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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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I'm new to Linux, yet am now committing to Linux, probably formatting HDDs to run the ext4 file-system, for (almost) all work. I need to keep one Windows machine running an NTFS file-system for a few ...
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I have a USB storage drive which is using NTFS. It works perfectly in Win10, I can see the drive and the files and read and write without issue. I was previously able to mount this drive on my Arch ...
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Apparently, ntfs.mkfs counts one byte less when checking if the block device is large enough; or I have made some kind of mistake. After creating a partition of 2048 512-byte sectors (exactly 1MiB ...
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ls -al /media/victor/Backup/ Output: insgesamt 25 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12288 19. Aug 13:49 . drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 4096 19. Aug 12:27 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 19. Aug 10:43 DATA -...
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This is my fstab file: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name ...
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I've read multiple manuals about ddrescue, ran it to copy almost entire disk and only now realized that I missed very useful utilities which could save hours of copying data. What I did till now (2 ...
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I'm relatively new to linux mint(4-5 months in [loving it!]) and I have a 2TB USB 3.0 HDD connected (WD Drive in the photo) I'm trying to shrink the main NTFS Partition on said drive, and it says max ...
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The error I see is: Unable to access location Error mounting /dev/sbd3 at /media/user/PDrive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/sb3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error ...
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This reddit post explains that using mount -o ro over NTFS changes the atime of files. They say something like that the kernel is not obliged to honour the ro flag, and to achieve reliable readonly ...
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This might question might not have a 'legal' answer but I'll ask it anyway. My dad is 15 year dead but I still have the disk out of his old Windows computer. It seems my sister want's me to try to dig ...
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I've got a 2.5 inch 5200RPM 320G HDD to recover data from. As I've been told, a child has stepped on the laptop and broke it. They gave me the laptop and motherboard seems to be completely fine. There'...
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I have an HDD used for archival purposes. I had to format it with NTFS to keep it accessible from Windows. I need TRIM support (because the HDD is SMR...) and NTFS can't trim without the discard ...
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My problem is to decode the output of the command file -s /dev/sdX on my system (where /dev/sdX is the device file associated to a USB key). Below I'll show the output of the command file -s /dev/sdX ...
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To enable the mount of USB key formatted with file system ntfs I have created the following configuration fragment file: CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m # CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y This file ...
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I've experienced total system freeze while checking if files where copied correctly by diff -rq [INTERNAL HDD] [USB HDD] This happened twice, always while running the diff. On the second occasion I ...
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Lately when I write to an external drive formatted as NTFS* and then eject it, and wait a full minute before un-powering, then upon re-powering it won't auto-mount and manual mount attempts give an ...
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I tarred one file with: tar cf My-tarball.tar path/to/file.txt Then compressed it: gzip My-tarball.tar But when i decompress it and extract it gunzip My-tarball.tar.gz tar -xf My-tarball.tar the ...
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I know this is a question which has been asked many times before, and it should be simple. I think I'm close but I must be doing something wrong. This is my first time using QEMU and I'm really ...
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I have two operating systems on my computer: one Arch Linux and one 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 ...
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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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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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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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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. # ls ...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 I ...
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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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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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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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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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