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A Microsoft file system, used in Windows NT (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)

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Is there a way to access my music on Vista while I work on Ubuntu?

I have installed Ubuntu using Wubi alongside Vista on my laptop. Is there a way for me to gain access to iTunes that is on Vista?
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Accidentally used "cp /file /dev/sdb1"

I'm about to cry, in need of your help... I'm new to linux. I was trying to copy a Windows10 iso to my external HDD. I wanted to use cp command. I saw that my external HDD was sdb1. So I just used cp /...
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Removing exeuctable bit on ntfs stored linux files corrupts files

I have a shared partition setup as ntfs for storing Linux files between distros and WSL. My /etc/fstab for the shared partition looks like this: UUID=F2C2ACE4C2ACADF3 /mnt/e ntfs-3g permissions,...
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How to properly format a pendrive with Ubuntu and have permissions to read/write from any computer [duplicate]

I want to know what is the "user friendly" solution for formatting a pendrive and do not loosing every pendrive you format with any Ubuntu (v12 onwards). Now, I have Ubuntu 16 and I just loose my ...
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Does reformatting an NTFS drive to EXT4 remove the fragmented parts of it?

I purchased a 2TB hard drive that was initially formated as ntfs and have been using it on my NAS for a while. I did a scan on it and found out it was a bit fragmented. I didn't want to waste time ...
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Accessing NTFS Drive from 3rd Party Application

I have tried to use P3X OneNote under Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS but I have encountered the problem, that from the application (insert file) I cannot access my NTFS drive with the message /media/peter/Data ...
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Create a copy of MFT using DD and convert to CSV?

I am looking for a way to save a copy of the NTFS file system MFT to analyze the dates of last access to the files and also the complete list of files. I have thought about the use of DD to avoid ...
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How to access Windows partition from Ubuntu [closed]

I have installed Ubuntu 17.04 after Windows first primary partition on my Asus laptop. But now I am not able to access Windows partitions. Error mounting /dev/sda5 at /media/nisarg/New Volume: ...
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Accessing NTFS files on ubuntu

I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 on my Asus K401UQ notebook. I have the following partitions C:/ Drive (OS partition) (NTFS) Two data partitions, formatted as NTFS. D:/ and E:...
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Can't automatically mount ext4 partitions under Ubuntu 14.04 (but can mount NTFS ones)

So I just got alongside my Windows 8.1 a cool Ubuntu 14.04 and quite happy with it (my default OS now). I just have a problem: the fact that I can't mount ext4 partitions at boot is quite annoying. I ...
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What's wrong with my permissions in sudo gedit /etc/fstab?

I keep getting this error when trying to mount my secondary internal hdd... sudo mount /dev/sdb [mntent]: line 13 in /etc/fstab is bad mount: can't find /dev/sdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab This is ...
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From /media/blabla to media/my_name/blabla

I have a ntfs disk which used to get mapped to media/A6505A54505A2B11_/. There was also a directory media/A6505A54505A2B11/. Then all of a sudden it started to get mapped to media/my_name/...
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Removed windows and now am unable to mount formerly shared partition

I just removed my windows 8 partition, but not ubuntu (Raring) will not let me mount a ntfs partition I was using as a shared space. Here is the error: Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /media/john/Storage:...
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pros and cons for hard drive partition solutions [closed]

I just bought a new 1T hard drive to replace the dead one for my desktop. I use it mainly for number crunching, doing higher performance computations that consume lots of memory and CPU, and also read ...
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How to mount ntfs drive to home folder? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to automount NTFS partitions? I have 300 gb NTFS drive with documents folder on it. Is it possible to automount /media/300gb/documents to home/documents at system startup? ...
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How to tell the hotplug system which NTFS driver to use?

I need a NTFS-3G version later than the one shipped with lucid lynx because I want to make use of the new hide_hid_files and hide_dot_files mount options, which are not present before version 2010.8.8....
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NTFS hard drive is read only

I have a NTFS drive attached via SATA cable to my Ubuntu server running version 22.04. It's a Western Digital Red hard drive. I auto mounted it via fstab: UUID=C0864343244110 /home/media/...
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Installing a new 4tb hdd not knowing to go for e.g. ext4 or NTFS as a format, some advice please

To keep it short and sweet: just bought a 4tb disk to replace a broken one. Not sure to use a linux format a.i. ext4 or NTFS. I will mainly use the disk to store music and films and some (Win-)...
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Error mounting filesystem when mounting external hdd

I'm sure this has been asked lots of times, but I have checked many threads and couldn't find the fix to my specific problem. So I have been using an external hard disk (Toshiba external usb 3.0 1TB) ...
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NTFS mounts are overwritten

I have downloaded and installed the new Ubuntu21.4. It formatted the entire disk and I lost my NTFS mounts c:\ and D:. Is there any way to recover NTFS Data (images and videos) from the hard disk.
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"ENOSPC: no space left on device" when there is free space on fuse NTFS-3G

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04. I am trying to run a command that involves creating a lot of files in the cache directory: $XDG_CACHE_HOME. I have set this variable to /media/michael/Storage2/cache/, in order to ...
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Why does Gparted leave a spare used space after formating for all File Systems(ntfs,fat32,ex4)?

I have maybe a theoretical question about file systems or how gParted works. After when I deleted some patritions and then format into some file systems(ntfs, fat32, ex4). I noticed that some spaces ...
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Very slow copying files from ExFat to NTFS

I got stuck in a mess. I have a 2T WD Elements HD mounted in ExFat that was not recognized anymore from my mac and my Windows. Reading on the internet i found that maybe linux could help me to get ...
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Why do NTFS partitions have to be mounted separately on media folder?

On a dual boot system with Windows and Ubuntu 16.04, the NTFS partitions on disk are shown with their label names when viewed in Ubuntu. A user has to click on it in Nautilus to mount it. Why is ...
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Unable to access volume

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 in my Acer Aspire A315,51 i3 64-bit alongside Windows 10. When I start my computer, I have to choose Windows 10 or Ubuntu. It was working good, then I got a problem in Ubuntu, ...
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problem with NTFS partitioning [duplicate]

I have Windows and Ubuntu both installed in my laptop. Recently, during Windows installation when the computer took an update, the whole computer broke down. I had to fix the boot loader with Boot-...
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Can't get my ntfs partitions UUID in 15.10

I installed Ubuntu 15.10, and I can't mount my NTFS partitions I searched a lot and found few solutions and tried them but the funny thing is that everytime I get the UUID's that the partitions had ...
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How to specify block size when formatting?

I need to format a 4 GB Pendrive with blocks size of 4 KB in NTFS format type. I understand that I can do mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdb1 to give NTFS format. But is there any way (parameter or something like ...
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mount point for windows after setting ubuntu to `/`

I changed partitions on my machine so that win7 (NFTS) has 100GB, 16GB for swap, and 380GB for EXT4 where I will install Linux. I set the mount point for for linux to /. What should I set the win7 ...
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Auto mounting `NTFS` partition at startup not all options work

I am mounting a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system partition on my Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64-bit installation in order to be able to share data between the two OSs. The problem is that although I ...
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How to disable showing my Windows NTFS partion in Ubuntu [duplicate]

i'm dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 in my laptop and i allocate 4 NTFS partition for Windows and one Ext4 partition for Ubuntu, when Ubuntu start it show all of my NTFS partition as devices, i ...
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improve performance - NTFS to ext4

My laptop is 7 year old HP compaq with ubuntu 12.04. It was dual booting with windows partition. I was not using windows for the last 1 year and formatted and the windows drive and removed it. ...
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Sharing Installing Ubuntu with an NTFS data partition

Will I be allowed to install Ubuntu on to a 1.5gig HDD of which half of the drive is dedicated to an NTFS data partition, no OS is installed. Thank you.
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Unable to mount and boot windows 7 [closed]

I have Windows 7 and Linux Mint 16, and get this error when attempting to mount my Windows partition: Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/bugsy/Windows: Command-line mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=...
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Will Ubuntu Live CD move MFT to resize NTFS volumes?

I have a feeling some will consider this a duplicate, but please hear me out. I've been reading tons of questions and threads around this but have never really found an answer for this specifically. ...
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make ntfs hdd only visible in Ubuntu

Is it possible to create or make a ntfs partition that only visible in Ubuntu/linux? and how do we make it?
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How to extend an NTFS partition

I have a Linux and a Windows partition and want to extend the windows one. I already decreased the size of the linux partition via gparted, the problem is that the unused space is on the end of the ...
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How do I fix this umask/permission issue on a NTFS drive?

I set up a new Ubuntu laptop, 13.04, purpose: media download and storage server in a multi-OS/device household. I have an NTFS partition called "storage". I've had all kinds of permission errors, and ...
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Why does Rhythmbox lose link to music folder located in NTFS partition?

Rhythmbox loses link to music folder located in NTFS partition even though all the NTFS partitions are mounted when Ubuntu 13.04 starts up. Why does this happen and how do I solve it?
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Cannot chmode and chown on a ntfs usb drive

I have an NTFS formatted USB drive, on this disk I used to backup using rsync and with 12.04 everything worked. I've done a 12.10 64 bit fresh install, now when I plug the drive and select open with ...
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Can't mount NTFS partition

Well, I have Windows 8 running on another partition. I had Ubuntu 11.10 and was running perfectly, I could mount the windows partition. Now, it says that the partition is hibernated. But it is not. ...
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Encrypted NTFS folders and Ubuntu

I have about 100 GB folder on a NTFS partition that I would like to make inaccessible in Ubuntu. TrueCrypt is not an option as there's only 5 GB of free space and there's no way to create large enough ...
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Why do I not have permission to extract any archives?

I don't know what happened but all my archives have turned to read only mode. I can't extract my archives any more: This is an issue only on NTFS partitions, not home (The same archive could be ...
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Losing files on external BitLocker encrypted drive

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 and have an external encrypted with BitLocker HDD which I use to store sensitive data such as personal and family photos and videos. Today, as usual, I decided to move some ...
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How do I give network share users permissions to access mounted NTFS drives?

I have a machine I've just set up running Ubuntu 22.04.2, and have 3 NTFS hard drives mounted in the filesystem. I'm running a Plex server on the machine so have run into issues already with NTFS ...
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Cannot change ownership of a Samba shared NTFS drive

I'm new to this so I'll be verbose. I am setting up a headless NUC as a home server. Plugged in a 4TB NTFS external drive and it got automunted(?) under /media/username/Seagate. First step was sharing ...
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Not Showing ntfs partitons

Ubuntu ISO loaded on external USB drive. Boot into Ubuntu off external drive via UEFI as a live usb These steps work fine. I can also boot into Windows 10 which is installed on the internal hard-drive ...
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Is it safe to remove ntfs-config from my ubuntu 18.04?

I am running low on space so trying to free up some in my dual boot pc with ubuntu 18.04 and windows 10. Few months ago while troubleshooting i have installed several packages. Now i can not remember ...
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Can I use external HDD with NTFS partitioning to regularly read/write on it with UBUNTU?

I'm considering switching to UBUNTU from Windows 10 and I have two HDDs in a dock, that are partitioned as NTFS. They contain data that I use on a regular basis, such as Word files, PDFs etc. and I ...
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How can I change the permission on Ubuntu 20.04 to allow ':' on filename of NTFS external drive

I was using the Ubuntu 18.04 and everything was fine processing my files that are something like that: wrfout_d03_2018-01-16_09:00:00.nc It is an automatic process that a climate model save files and ...
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