Questions tagged [ntfs]
NTFS is the primary file system of all modern versions of Windows.
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Storing a million images in the filesystem
I have a project that will generate a huge number of images. Around 1,000,000 for start. They are not large images so I will store them all on one machine at start.
How do you recommended on ...
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Overcoming maximum file path length restrictions in Windows
One of our customers habitually use very long path names (several nested folders, with long names) and we routinely encounter "user education issues" in order to shorten the path to less than 260 ...
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How to take ownership of files from the command line?
Every so often I run into a file that I need to take ownership of. I normally use cacls for changing ntfs permissions, but it doesn't seem to do ownership. Under *nix I would run something like ...
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fstab filesystem type for NTFS -- 'ntfs' or 'ntfs-3g'?
I have a question about the difference between 'ntfs' and 'ntfs-3g' in the filesystem type field in the /etc/fstab file. My Linux distribution is Xubuntu; I suppose the answer may well vary between ...
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How to workaround the NTFS Move/Copy design flaw?
As anyone that has dealt with file server permissions is aware, NTFS has an interesting design feature/flaw known as the Move/Copy problem.
As explained in this MS KB article, the permissions for a ...
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What's the maximum theoretical data transfer throughput of NTFS?
Recently I was at a local user group meeting where the presenter noted that the maximum throughput of the NTFS IO stack was 1 GBps. He substantiated his claim by simultaneously copying two large files ...
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Window 256 characters path name limitation
after a long research, I finally found out that pathnames cannot be longer than 256 characters even in the latest Microsoft Windows 7. I really don't get it why there is such a stupid limitation, ...
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How do I take ownership of a folder when access is denied and the security tab is missing?
I have a Windows 2003 Standard x64 Server with SP2.
After deleting a large number of folders from a folder, the OS is reporting "Access Denied" on any attempt to read or manipulate the folder. When ...
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NTFS "Secrets"?
A few weeks ago I was reading through the Wikipedia entry on NTFS, and noticed that it was possible to use Symbolic Links amongst a number of other features that aren't readily apparent in Windows ...
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Change owner recursively with Powershell?
I'm trying to use Powershell to change owner of a folder, recursively.
I'm basically using this code:
$acct1 = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount('DOMAIN\Enterprise Admins')
$...
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Create NTFS symbolic links from within Linux
Is there a Linux utility that can create NTFS symbolic links? That is, a link on an NTFS partition that points to another NTFS folder - one that will work within Windows 7, specifically.
I wish to ...
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Unable to restore from Shadow Copy due to long filename
We have shadow copy enabled on our Windows SBS 2008 server. Attempting to restore a file from shadow copy gave the following error-
The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file ...
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Error 0x80070570: How to delete corrupted and unreadable file?
On my system partition I have a folder which cannot be deleted. This folder has been created by restoring files from an Acronis TrueImage backup.
The error message says:
Error 0x80070570: The file ...
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NTFS Folder has no owner, no permissions, can't be deleted
I have a folder a 2003 member server which can't be deleted. Nothing has any permissions (domain admin and running up a cmd prompt as "nt authority\system" using psexec) - always "access denied".
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User accidentally messed up a Robocopy command and caused a bunch of folders to get created with corrupt security
We had a user run a robocopy command to copy some files but unfortunately the user accidentally messed up the syntax.
Something like:
robocopy "\\server1\share\Accounting" \\server1\share\...
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Quickly changing Windows permissions for a huge directory tree?
I have a huge directory on an NTFS file-system
(i.e. a top-level directory containing tens or hundreds of millions of descendant nodes with the file nodes probably on average about three levels deep) ...
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From bad sector to "damaged file" - did it for Linux/ext3, can I do it for Windows/NTFS?
When a SMART check on a disk reports a bad sector, it is important to be able to identify the file that has the bad sector - and restore it from backups. Below, I show how I did this for my Linux/ext3 ...
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How do you disable the "last accessed" attribute on NTFS/Windows?
Inspired by this answer, I realize I have no idea how to disable the last accessed attribute in Windows to increase performance. If you can, how?
I know in Linux you can mount the partition with the '...
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List user's folder access permissions
I have a user in a domain who has access to multiple subfolders in multiple folders. His rights were defined pretty granularly. Now he's leaving the company but will continue to work for a firm as a ...
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NTFS - Domain Admins don't have permissions despite being part of the Local Administrators group
As per "Best Practices" staff in our IT department have two accounts. An unprivileged account and an account that is a member of the global Domain Admins ($DOMAIN\Domain Admins) group. On our file ...
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How can I use PowerShell to enable NTFS compression, in place, on log files older than x days?
I have an application server, running Windows 2012 R2, which generates a high volume of log files, to the point that it runs the application volume out of free space on a semi-regular basis. Due to ...
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Best method to track folder size growth over time?
I have a file server that has a pretty large folder tree. There's a shared folder, under that are 5 departmental folders. Nested inside of those are thousands of subfolders and files.
I would like ...
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Is it good practice to use NTFS Compression on IIS Log folders?
Is it a good practice to use NTFS Compression on a IIS Log folders and files?
I was able to go down from 20GB to 7GB by doing this. The IIS logs are per day, and have an average size of 20MB but some ...
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What are possible drawbacks of an IIS 7 site having an NTFS junction as a web root?
I am trying to come up with a way to deploy ASP.NET code with as little site disturbance as possible. One thought was to set up the site to be served from an NTFS junction c:\www\example.com where
c:\...
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NTFS ACL's: What is the difference between object and container inhertiance?
I am looking at using icacls.exe. However, before proceeding, I wanted clarification on the difference between these two ACL's:
(OI) - object inherit
(CI) - container inherit
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Resetting NTFS Permissions Disk Wide
Someone messed up majorly in setting permissions on an NTFS drive and I'm looking at a way to reset all permissions to default. The OS will be reinstalled but I'm trying to salvage data from their ...
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Sluggish performance on NTFS drive with large number of files
I am looking at this setup:
Windows Server 2012
1 TB NTFS drive, 4 KB clusters, ~90% full
~10M files stored in 10,000 folders = ~1,000 files/folder
Files mostly quite small < 50 KB
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Flash Drives - should be formatted NTFS?
Should Flash Drives be formatted NTFS? What are the Pros & Cons of doing so?
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Why does Windows process all NTFS child objects when changing a parent’s ACL?
Why does Windows process all NTFS child objects when changing a parent’s ACL?
I would expect this behavior if I had checked the “Replace all child object permissions...” box, but even when that box ...
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Get the Allocation Unit Size from NTFS disk
I need to find out the "Allocation Unit Size" selected when a particular hard-disk was formatted.
It doesn't appear in the properties information for the drive.
Is there any easy way to get this ...
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Install GRUB on NTFS
I would like to install 2 completely independent instances of Windows XP (no data should be shared) in my computer within 2 different primary partitions.
I know that grub can handle booting them ...
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How can I compact the VHD file with Ubuntu?
I use windows server 2008r2 with role Hyper-V. The guest system is Ubuntu 12.04 LTC. It is situated on the dynamic virtual hard disk.
I want to compact this VHD (The real size is 50 GB, 360 GB on the ...
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What is the best way to fix NTFS file permissions to inherit parent?
When XP clients move files on the same volume, the permissions are moved with it. With Windows 7 clients and up, when a file is moved, the permissions are inherited.
Unfortunately, we still have a ...
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Does Windows have a checksumming filesystem like ZFS or BtrFS?
I use ZFS and love it. I know that BtrFS also supports checksumming. I've been told that checksumming is available in Windows 2008, but I've been unable to verify this.
Are there checksumming ...
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Crashed Hard Drive Data Retrieval
I recently had a laptop hard drive crash on me and am trying to rescue some of the data on the original drive.
As such, I've extracted my failed hard drive and installed it in a USB enclosure. I've ...
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Configuring NTFS file system for performance
We have an application that is planning to store around 1.1TB of XML files which average 8.5kb in size.
These represent a rolling 18 months of data, with around 200,000 new files being created every ...
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Is this a recommended/valid approach for file server permissions?
File servers are a fact of life in IT and I'm curious if there are any generally accepted practices (I hesitate to use the word "best" here) for how you create groups and apply permissions for ...
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Windows Server Backup Error - Volumes Larger than 16.7TB cannot be protected?
I'm trying to use Windows Server Backup to backup a RAID array on my new server. But, when I do, I run into this error:
The server is running Windows Server 2012 R2 and the array in question is 20TB ...
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How can I split a drive image created with 'dd' into separate files for each partition?
I created an image of a failing drive with:
dd if=/dev/sde of=/mnt/image001.dd
The drive had only two partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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How to resize the primary partition in Windows Server 2008?
We have a Windows Server 2008 with C: and D: drives. I freed up 30 GB from the D: drive using the "shrink volume" option and that needs to be added to C: drive. But the extend volume on the C: drive ...
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Does using a large NTFS disk allocation size for a file share make a difference?
I'm formatting a drive using NTFS which will be dedicated as a file share for users to centrally store their files. The files will likely be large (10's to 100's of megabytes).
Someone suggested ...
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Security: Unable to display current owner
I have a user with local administrative rights on their Windows 7 64-bit box. They extracted a file from a zip file they downloaded with the Zip shell extension to their desktop on a non-encrypted or ...
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Windows / NTFS - is it possible to measure completion time of file operations?
I'm looking for possibility of measuring how much time it takes to finish file operation issued to NTFS driver (open file close file delete file, write, read etc) and to be able to log it. I can't ...
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Protect files on NTFS volume from Domain Administrators
We're a small company with a 2008R2 domain on which we have a file server with several shared volumes. We have a number of IT staff in the domain administrators role, because effectively we're all on ...
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NTFS: How do I find the sector(s) a file is occupying?
On my hunt to find an answer, I came across an answer to the opposite question, how to find which file occupies a sector (on Windows, use nfi.exe from the Windows 2000 OEM toolkit).
From what I ...
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Windows 2003; Find folders with non-inherited/changed permissions
The question: I'm looking for a good way to audit/search a directory structure (Windows 2003) and locate any folders that either don't inherit permissions from their parent -or- have additional users/...
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How to see if/when a long file copy operation actually completed?
Having to move several very large files (VHDs) between two servers, I launched the file copy operation using Windows Explorer in a Remote Desktop session, and then closed the session without logging ...
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How do NTFS permissions become improperly ordered?
I have some files on a network share and they were read-only accessible to users. I had set the permissions to provide full rights to all domain users - when I checked the main folder, this was still ...
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How do I force ntfsresize to ignore the backup bootsector?
I cloned one hard drive to another and things are working well. Except for my NTFS volume not taking up the entire partition (due to the older volume being smaller).
Doing this:
sudo ntfsresize -x /...
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Why can't I delete a folder that I have ownership (+ children) AND full control permissions (+ children) on?
I've got some leftover Windows update temporary folders (they have GUID-ish names) on the root of the system drive. I'm trying to clean these up, but am getting the following behavior upon deletion ...
