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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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.
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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.
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I have a 2Tb M.2 SSD drive that was running Windows 11. Windows suffered a fatal registry failure and ...
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