Questions tagged [ntfs-3g]
NTFS-3G is an open source cross-platform implementation of the Microsoft Windows NTFS file system with read-write support.
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Trash not found if deleting a file in a NTFS external hard drive. Debian 13 with gnome
This is the error when I delete a file in the file manager in GNOME: Error: Unable to move "/media/victor/Backup/harddrive/TEST" to the recycle bin. G_IO_ERROR_FAILED: Trash portal failed ...
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Why do the sync mount option kill the performance of NTFS partitions?
I have noticed that when I mount my external HDD NTFS partition with the sync option, the write performance is terrible (1MB/s max). But when I use async the system finishes the operation very quickly ...
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Files created by user in a mounted partition show root as owner
I have a dual boot system (Windows 10/Archlinux) and I have created a NFTS partition which is mounted at startup via /etc/fstab so I can access it from both OS'es. The fstab file shows that the ...
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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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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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Ntfsfix "Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk." even after chkdsk
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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chmod not working on NTFS-3g partition
I have a file on an NTFS-3g partition, I tried using chmod to add execute to this file, but it remained unchanged. What am I doing wrong? I followed this and this posts, but none of them worked, this ...
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Can you emulate Windows filesystem case semantics with ntfs-3g?
With NTFS on a Windows machine if you create a directory "ABC" and then try to create a directory "abc" it will be rejected because Windows considers it the same name. Now on Linux ...
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