Questions tagged [ntfs]
A Microsoft file system, used in Windows NT (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)
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How can I run fsck on ntfs partitions on my hard drive? [duplicate]
A few years ago I switched from Windows to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for my desktop PC. I installed the Ubuntu operating system (root+home+swap) in the space previously assigned to the C partition, while the ...
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Ubuntu Studio automounts NTFS partition - how to disable?
I have installed Ubuntu Studio, Version 22.04 LTS. I have also a NTFS partition at the same disk, which contains previously installed Windows OS.
Ubuntu Studio seems to automatically mount the NTFS ...
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How do I access an external XBox One formatted drive?
I have read that the XBox One formats external hard drives in NTFS format. My understanding from reading pages such as this one is that NTFS support should work "out of the box". However, when I plug ...
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How I can repair an USB Drive mft and mftmirr?
I have an USB Drive that I messed up. I've extracted it improperly, and now it doesn't mount. It has a NTFS file system and I used testdisk on it, but when I try to repair MFT with the Mirror or ...
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how to find files copied in ubunut in NTFS drive
if I copied the file from the Ubuntu system to a passport with NTFS type, is there any solution to find the files I copied as the types are different or it is not copied as the sequence i did is
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External Drive DIsk is unrecognised
after reading askubuntu as a guest for some time I decided to be an active part of the community posting here my first question.
I bought an HDD of 2TB some months ago. It worked ok, but when I was ...
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Unable to Mount NTFS Drives after upgrading to 22.04
It was working fine in 2.10. Now that I upgraded to 22.04, USB and my dual boot Windows 10 partitions in NTFS are not mounting. I tried Ventoy USB and it was working, was able to browse the contents.
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Dropbox on a dual-boot machine
I have a dual boot laptop- Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10, both located on same HD, different partitions, and a third one, meant to be for common use.
To avoid putting my Dropbox folder on each OS, I ...
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recovering raid 0 hard disk
I bumped to a huge (for me) problem. I was running dual boot system (win 7 / linux) and at some point I decided to test fedora ( I am new in Linux ).
My hard disk conf: 3 hard disks each 1 TB, 2 set ...
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Terminal method of formatting storage drive
I want to know how to format a storage drive from the terminal. Helpful things to provide in the answer would be often used options for commands and base knowledge that one can use to extrapolate ...
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Migrated to Ubuntu, my external NTFS Drive is now Read-Only [duplicate]
I recently moved over to using Ubuntu 20.04 from Windows 10, backed up files and everything. However, now on Ubuntu I am unable to modify files within my external drive.
Running a few commands reveals ...
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Cannot remove "empty directories" from my external hard drive after rsync fail
It seems like I have 4 empty directories on my external hard drive (NTFS). But I can't remove them with nautilus or a terminal.
I think this happened just after my attempt to synchronize 2 directories ...
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Cannot change the ownership mounting ntfs drive
Why I cannot change the ownership on mounting ntfs drive?
I give uid=1000,gid=1000, etc in my /etc/fstab file, but found it is not working. So I'm testing it out on command line:
root@host:~# mount | ...
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mkfs.ntfs: Maximum label length
man 8 of mkfs.ntfs does not inform you of the maximum length of a label. Which?
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Why I am getting wrong fs type bad option error for ntfs drives?
Last night I gracefully shut down my computer and currently now I getting a weird error like in the attached image.
I tried all the possible option but nothing seems to work. This happens for the very ...
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Convert filesystem NTFS -> EXT4?
I have 2 TB of data on an NTFS drive which I would like to convert to EXT4 filesystem. My OS runs on a (comparatively) small 60GB SSD. Is there any way to convert the filesystem, apart from backing ...
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Mount subfolder from NTFS drive via entry in /etc/fstab
I have a NTFS hard drive connected to my Raspberry Pi.
The structure of the drive is:
F:\
- Images
- Other
- Movie
I would like to mount only the F:\Movie folder in /mnt/disk/Movie in read-only.
My ...
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Ubuntu mounts external ntfs drive as read-only?
I am an infrequent Ubuntu / Linux user, only use it in case of major disaster (in this case Ransom-ware nuclear, but that's another story).
So i booted up another laptop using Ubuntu from a USB-drive;...
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Can't mount NTFS drive - "NTFS signature is missing."
I am unable to mount my NTFS drive on the latest stable Ubuntu Server 14.04 :
$ sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/wd3TbHdd -t ntfs
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc': Invalid argument
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Unable to mount NTFS drive
I'm new to Ubuntu and am trying to re-mount my internal 3Tb hard drive. It had been working, but when I restarted the system, it wouldn't mount. I've tried every solution that Google could find, but ...
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Recovering 220GB of files in a formatted partition with Testdisk
I went away from the Linux world for a decade or so. Now that I'm trying my way back, that nice little warning that told me that I would lost all my files when replacing Windows XP failed to be clear ...
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Unable to transfer files from Windows (NTFS) to Ubuntu (EXT4) directly
I'm attempting to mount Windows (NTFS) on Ubuntu (EXT4) so that I can move files directly across. With the following command, I mounted with the correct permissions:
sudo mount -o remount,rw '/media/...
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External NTFS drive mounted but unavailable after logout while it is in fstab
I have an external USB-drive with NTFS filesystem on Ubuntu 20.04.2 I have a mounting point at /media/myname/data. I ran sudo blkid and know this device UUID. I have an /etc/fstab with this record:
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Problem with External Hard Disk
I'm experiecning a problem with my External Hard Disk.
When I plug my HDD in ubuntu it works. When I plug it in Windows, it also works. But when I transfer files from Ubuntu to HDD and then trying ...
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ntfsusermap for triple boot
I have a triple boot system: macOS, Windows (Fast Boot disabled), and Xubuntu. Beside the OS drive, there's a data drive formatted in NTFS.
I use ntfsusermap as mentioned in osxfuse's NTFS-3G guide to ...
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NTFS filesystem partition detected as unknown on Linux after HDD cloning
I have a problem with one of my partition.
I have cloned my HDD with a bigger one to have more space. Now Ubuntu is working perfectly but my second partition (/dev/sda4) which I know is a NTFS ...
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How do I share a NTFS partition over LAN?
I've set up samba and everything works whenever I share folders that are in my /home directory, but when I try sharing an entire NTFS partition I get access denied on my windows 10 machine. I've tried ...
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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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Dolphin Mounts Partition As Read-Only
I'm running Kubuntu 21.10 on my computer and I have two partitions I use a lot, my root partition (with all of the OS stuff) and my other NTFS data partition, with games and large files. As always, my ...
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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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Unable to access "Volume 914 GB" while mounting a drive
ubuntu mount error:
Unable to access "Volume 914 GB"
Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sda4: Command-line `mount
"/mnt/sda4"` exited with non-zero exit status 12: Failed ...
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git init shows 'error: chmod ... .git/config.lock failed: Operation not permitted'
File rights is the worst thing for me in Ubuntu. This time i get this problem:
So, background info :
It is ntfs partition;
I have already run sudo chown *username*:*username* -R ...
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How to change GPT to MBR?
I can't see my second hard drive, which is GPT, in Linux. I mean I can't mount it or use data from it. On Windows it is all good. I load Windows8\Ubuntu from GRUB, which uses MBR on the first HDD.
As ...
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file properties all question mark on NTFS partition
Ubuntu 20.04, when I backup my disk, I found files on C partition (the partition for the dual OS Windows, and only in this partition), have permission and attribute all set to question mark(?). e.g:
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Mount NTFS on Ubuntu start up - rc.local vs fstab
I've found out two ways to automount a NTFS partition on Ubuntu start up.
File /etc/rc.local:
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda8 /mnt/data/
Or by fstab:
UUID=1C02CB8502CB627E /media/data/ ntfs defaults 0 0
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How can GNOME Files(Nautilus) use the default settings for mounting NTFS disks with NTFS3 kernel module? Replacement of NTFS-3G and FUSE
Two virtual machines are installed on the host with Ubuntu 18.04 and VMware Workstation Player: Ubuntu Server 20.04 and Windows 11(the "quick start" function is disabled powercfg /h off).
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WoeUSB Error Code 256 with NTFS formatted USB
I tried to create a Windows 10 USB boot medium with WoeUSB. I formatted a USB drive with an NTFS partition, but WoeUSB complains with:
Installation failed!
Exit code: 256
Log:
WoeUSB v@@...
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How to read proprietary Windows LDM partition (or convert to NTFS) on Ubuntu?
I removed Windows 10 from my 240GB SSD to use Ubuntu 21.10 as default system.
But I can't read a partition in my 1TB HD which I created using Windows.
The partition I am referring is was on a 1TB HD ...
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GParted "ERROR: Volume is full. To shrink it, delete unused files." when I'm trying to enlarge (NTFS)
GParted is giving me a wrong error message, which makes troubleshooting rather hard.
I've got an NTFS partition, 100% full with one file (the .vdi for a Win10 VM using VirtualBox). I'm trying to ...
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Tablet BIOS (UEFI) won't accept boot from USB
I have a x64 tablet running win 8.1. I am trying to install different Linux distro's. Unfortunately I am having trouble booting up from live usb. I got all set up in bios, turned off secure boot, ...
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NTFS HDD as a data storage for docker containers
I have a NTFS HDD on which I have various docker-compose setups (e.g. postgres). The NTFS HDD is mounted as NTFS from Ubuntu and when I bind a folder from the HDD into a docker container, when the ...
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How to force NTFS partition to always be mounted as root?
I have a system with Windows and Linux installed, and Windows is installed on a driver with an NTFS partition. I want to make sure that I don't accidentally write to this partition, so I want it ...
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How to automount NTFS partitions?
I have two NTFS partitions, and I don't want to mount them manually every-time I start Ubuntu.
How can I do this?
Is there a tool or a code to use?
If so, is it safe to automount? specially when ...
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External drive: All created files are owned by root
I have an external USB 3.0 disk which I mount as:
sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,user,umask=003,o+r,gid=science /dev/sda1 /media/external
There are 2 problems, which I am not sure how to solve:
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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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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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Can't do any modifications on NTFS disks
I have some NTFS volumes when I used to have a dual boot machine (windows10 and Ubuntu 20.04). Now I only have Ubuntu but these NTFS volumes don't let me crate, delete or copy any files into them. Any ...
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How to make pmount using big_writes option for ntfs-3g mouting?
using pmount to conveniently mount usb disks, some are ntfs.
by default pmount do ntfs-3g mounting without big_writes option.
how to config pmount so it use big_writes option for ntfs-3g?
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teUnable to mount NTFS partition
I have an SSD with Windows 10 installed. I have been able to mount the partition in the past.
However, now, when I mount the partition with Windows on it, I get an error message complaining about a ...
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Resizing NTFS partition in Linux won't work [closed]
I recently switched from Windows 10 to Arch Linux and as I didn't want to lose my data, I left my 2TB HDD untouched during the install and only formatted my SSD. The install worked out nicely and I'm ...
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