NTFS is the primary file system of all modern versions of Windows.
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Vmware Tools potentially locking files/folders on Windows Server
I have a Windows 2008 R2 X64 server running on Vmware ESXi. Originally it was running on Hyper-V, but I have since converted the VHD to a VMDK and migrated to ESXi. I also installed VMware Tools. ...
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Solaris Automated install Hard-Drive Windows 7 [closed]
I got two hard disks, one of 40gb and another one with 1tb.
The 40gb has windows 7 installed on it, taking all the space of this hdd, and in the 1tb disk i got few logic and extended partitions; in ...
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How do I allow an administrator with full control of a file to actually do anything with the file in Windows Server 2008 R2?
I have moved a windows script to a new machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 (from a machine running 2000).
The first thing the script does is rename a text file in the same folder as the script.
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Cloning flash drive while preserving empty space [migrated]
I'm working with an industrial PC running Windows XP embedded.
The PC has a 2GB compact flash memory which acts as main drive.
I would like to clone the 2GB flash memory to a card with 8GB space.
How ...
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Is it possible to list all permissions where I don't have access
I'm looking for a way to recursively go through my entire file share ( fairly large 3TB of files ) and list out all files/folders that I don't have access to. Due to a migration and some errors on ...
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writing on NTFS drives (on debian wheezy) [migrated]
I am currently setting up a personal server on debian wheezy. My machine is an arm based architecture (cubox).
The problem appear when I want to mount and use my NTFS external hard drives.
The mount ...
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Running SpinRite on SAN attached LUN with NTFS corruption
Got a customer that has an issue with NTFS corruption that is popping up on SAN attached storage. The LUN is RAID-10 (4:1 spindle ratio). The machines are Windows Server 2003 (64-bit), and they are ...
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How to handle colons (:) in rdiff-backup files when running on NTFS
I am using rdiff-backup to backup the contents of a folder located on a Debian machine to a NTFS disk via ntfs-3g.
The problem is that rdiff-backup creates various files containing colons (:) in its ...
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list, edit, add ntfs permissions on a fileserver
I'm working on a migration and need to add NTFS permissions on a fileserver.
Does anyone know a good way to perform these actions?
list permissions of all directories located on the fileserver to ...
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Security permissions appearing as long numbers instead of user name
I transferred over folders/files from one server to another using robocopy for Server 2003. However, for each individual that has special permissions to access a folder or file the security ...
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SBS 2008 Folder Share permissions mess
I came across this question asked a couple of years ago about setting permissions via a script and was hoping that there might be a similar script that would work for me with the issue I am having.
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Permission Refactoring Tools
Are there any products out there that can refactor permissions? I am talking about something like...
Folder has users A, B, and C in it as direct permission assignments. I'd like to have a tool that ...
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NTFS permissions on shared folder - safe to remove CREATOR OWNER and SYSTEM?
I was looking at some of the new Windows servers I've inherited at my new job. Most of the shares have the default permissions for the drive inherited. Two entries are always there:
I've read the ...
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Troubleshooting I/O latency possibly caused by file system driver
I have a SQL Server instance (SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows 2008 R2) that complains, for very short, random periods of about 15-20 seconds, that some of its I/O requests are taking longer than 15 ...
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Windows Server 2008 and Directory Symlinks
I have a shared Directory on my TeamCity Server, C:\Work which is about 9 GB and I want to move it to a separate Disk E:. When I copy the C:\Work to E:\Work and do mklink /D to make a symlink, the ...
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Backing up ZFS samba share fails via Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
I have the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client running on a Windows 2008 server. It is trying to backup a SMB share from a ZFS storage server. The Windows user running the TSM client is a domain ...
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Look up where a NTFS group is used
We are doing some AD clean up and migrating or deleting old AD groups and replacing them with our current naming stranded in AD. The challenge that we are running into is making sure we have the we ...
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ntfs-3g fstab line working but not on reboot
I have an external USB hard drive attached to a Debian Squeeze server. /etc/fstab has the following in it:
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/win ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
If I run mount -a then it mounts fine.
However, ...
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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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Windows NTFS: Does taking ownership of file or folder affect permissions?
I have a shared folder that I am moving to a new server with Robocopy. However, I do not have FULL permissions to all of the source files.
I am planning on taking ownership of all files and folders ...
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1answer
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Folder creation date is very recent, while last modified is years ago
We're experiencing some weird stuff with our roaming user profiles. We use folder redirection for Documents/Pictures/Music/Destkop/Downloads, yet these folders are being created in the roaming user ...
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Force NTFS permissions inheritance for newly created files
Does anybody know a way to force that all files that get created inside some folder inherit the NTFS permissions of that folder.
The problem is the following:
I have a third party software that is ...
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Securing iis 8 nt permissions
I have an win2012/IIS 8 webserver which I am trying to secure. I want to isolate each site/user to their own folder as best as possible.
I have moved the websites to "c:\sites\mysiteA\", ...
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sbs 2011 permissions to create files but not folders
I'm trying to modify the permissions of a group so that they can have full control over files (read/write/delete... everything) but to be unable to create/modify any folders.
I've set 2 permissions ...
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Retrieving data after accidental LVM partitioning [closed]
I had a two NTFS partitions on a single drive, one with Windows installation and the other with personal data.
Being convinced that I have already made a backup of personal data, I proceeded with ...
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NTFS Share: Allow file read, deny list folder
How do you setup permissions on a Windows NTFS share so that
users (in a AD group)
1) can read any file on that share, if they know the full path to the file
2) can't browse/list any folder on that ...
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Copy past speed very slow for a large number of files on Windows
I've run the following test I've created a folder containing 15'000 files of 400 bytes using this batch :
@ECHO off
SET times=15000
FOR /L %%i IN (1,1,%times%) DO (
fsutil file createnew ...
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How to setup NTFS ACL with Acces Based Enumeration
We're in the process of migrating from Novell Netware to Windows 2K8 R2 infrastructure (AD, File server, print server... etc)
My question is about ACL. While Netware and Windows are totally ...
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While using an ntfs smb share for mac users, do symbolic links and extended attributes work?
We have a majority of mac users but we'd rather support their file sharing using a Windows server with an ntfs drive, or at least a Linux server with ext3. We've had trouble, much trouble, utilizing ...
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Need to allow Paste, Move and Rename permissions without delete permission [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to grant rename permissions, but not delete, in NTFS?
I’m administering a Windows domain that started with a Windows 2003 standard server (32bit) that had ...
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NTFS Advanced Deny permissions and Rules
I feel like I am missing something on something obvious here. Or just making a noob mistake.
I have a folder structure as shown below an example. Folder A1 and A2 are inside folder A. Folder B1, B2 ...
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Change NTFS Security via Powershell [closed]
I'm looking for a simple Powershell way to set NTFS permissions on a specific folder.
Get-Acl "\\fileserver\c$\Program Files\Target" is not even working for me. Any ideas?
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BAD stripes in controller and windows utility to remap bad blocks
Ok, here is my story. I have 3 disks raid 5, one of the disks made a few surface errors and I didn't know. I tried to repair the corrupted database table in mysql and the machine froze on write. I ...
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NTFS - Domain Admins don't have permissions despite being part of the Local Administrators group
As per "Best Practices" staff in our IT department have two accounts. An unprivileged account and an account that is a member of the global Domain Admins ($DOMAIN\Domain Admins) group. On our file ...
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Can Windows read an unpartitioned NTFS volume? (Single large partition)
So, for various reasons, I've ended up with a 45TB Single Linux Logical volume, without a partition table, formatted as NTFS containing 28TB of data (the Filesystem itself is 28TB).
The filesystem ...
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I have a HD with bad sectors, can I configure windows to only retry a failed read once? [closed]
I have a bad HD (numerous bad sectors)
I'm attempting to get some of the data off, however Windows keeps trying to reread the bad sectors - resulting in a really really long wait time
can I ...
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Debian Harddrive Fdisk - Same ID's and changing letters
I am trying to create and install a debain NAS and ive been having a hard time because I am new to all of this. I used ntfs-3g in order to automount my 4 NTFS drives. I also have a partitioned ...
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What is the most efficent way to grant a user ready-only permisson to all folders and files on a file server?
We currently operate about four file servers, all running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Until now, we have used the Windows internal file search (aka “Indexing options”) and this worked OK and found all ...
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NTFS Permissions Management - any software that compliment windows default interface? [closed]
Is there any software out there that complements the existing windows file metadata management. I find windows right management to be tedious and unintuitive compared too many others I have used (not ...
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Dlink DNS-320 NAS device, can it do NTFS? [closed]
I have put in an NTFS formatted drive into the left bay of the DNS-320. I would like to get at least read access on this internal drive. How can this be done?
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NTFS Permissions - Access Denied even though Explicit Allow and no Deny
I'm hoping someone can help me with this NTFS permissions problem. The short version is that I can't write a new file in F:\SomeDir even though I seem to be granted full permissions via both the ...
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1answer
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Folder rights doesn't work on group, but does on user
I've got this share where I want to restrict access to two folders so that only members of a group can get access to them. I've done this countless of times, but this time there's something odd going ...
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Folder doesn't show up in explorer, cmd, and python even though I can access it, how can I fix this?
I am accessing another computer on the network using a mapped network drive. The path looks like \\192.168.0.100\d$ which is mapped to my computer's "m" drive. I can access, view, create, delete, ...
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Deleting an undeletable Directory in Windows 7
I have encountered a problem from time to time but have not been able to resolve it without formatting.
I have a directory called d:\DotNet that I want to delete. I cannot because inside this folder ...
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NTFS: Deny all permissions for all files, except where explicitly added
I'm running a sandboxed application as a local user. I now want to deny almost all file system permissions for this user to secure the system, except for a few working folders and some system DLLs ...
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Recover file from NTFS after it was formatted twice [closed]
I'm running Linux Mint and have a 2TB drive that I formatted as NTFS. I copied ~120GB of files from another computer to the 2TB drive, removing the files from the other computer as I did so. When ...
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EFI vs MBR - Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 or 2012 on 8TB
I'm having some difficulty installing Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 on an Intel Server platform.
The server specs is as follows:
Intel Grizzly Pass Server System - R2308GZ4GC
2x ...
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Considering MySQL on SSD with NTFS and Windows 2008
My company is considering migrating our MySQL data from an HDD array to an SSD, possibly the Intel SSD 520 series. We have a fairly large set of databases, some with upwards of 100 million rows, so we ...
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How to activate deduplication in Windows Server 2012?
I just installed Windows Server 2012, and while I see and read about a new deduplication feature, the Server Manager keeps reporting empty fields in the columns for deduplication rate and savings. How ...
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Is it possible to copy a (.ISO) file that lives on an NTFS file-system within a VMDK file to the datastore VMFS using ESX SSH terminal?
I have several .ISO DVD backup files stored on a virtualized Win2008 server. Is there a simple way to mount the NTFS partition stored in a VMDK file using the ESX SSH terminal so that I can copy it ...
