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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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 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'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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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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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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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 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 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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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 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'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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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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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 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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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'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 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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