NTFS is the primary file system of all modern versions of Windows and is largely backward-and-forward-compatible in all supported versions. It is a journaling file system which makes it robust in the face of system failure, and in Vista/Windows Server 2008 and later offers support for transactions. ...
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Lost 6TB NTFS partition
I have a 6TB raid array that was formatted as NTFS but has disappeared. (note that this is hardware raid, not md)
When I created it, windows wouldn't let me create > 2tb. So I created it on a Linux ...
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Access denied error to root folder with “Bypass traverse checking” enabled
I have a W2K3 server with the Bypass traverse checking enabled. There is a share called \server\share which has Everyone Full Control for the sharing, and then has lots of NTFS security setup below ...
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Size on disk issue on windows 2008
I am facing typical "size on disk" issue on windows 2008 OS.
I am using NTFS partition with cluster size of 4k and in that Size of disk is almost triple the real size. This is becaus I have large ...
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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 ...
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Robocopy falsely marks files as newer
I have two NTFS formatted drives on different machines and I do a robocopy mirror between them like this:
robocopy "D:\My Documents" "X:\Backup\My Documents" /MIR /V /NP /XD .* /XO /XA:SHTO /FAT /Z ...
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Localizing NTFS Folder Share Names
We have an office in the US and Poland. This is a long shot but does anyone know if you can specify both an english folder name as well as a polish folder name for the same folder name so that if a ...
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NTFS permissions for a user on another computer in case of a disk moving in a cluster?
Is there a way to set NTFS permissions for a user on another computer?
I have two nodes in a failover cluster. Both have a specific user account ("charley") local to the node. Charley has files on a ...
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Transaction support within the specified resource manager is not started or was shut down due to an error
Got the following error while trying to add, edit or delete a windows schedule task:
Transaction support within the specified resource manager is not
started or was shut down due to an error.
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NTFS error 55 after rebooting a Windows 2008 Web Server
This one really drives me around since a year or so:
Having a public Windows 2008 Web Server (behind a firewall) that runs perfectly smooth, I have lots of troubles when rebooting this server (e.g. ...
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How can I add permissions for the IUSR_Machine account to a remote file share?
I have a web application which I need to grant permissions to a file share that's hosted on another machine in my DMZ. Users are accessing the application anonymously using the IUSR_Machine account ...
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NETWORK SERVICE is unable to save to a network path
I've done some extensive research on this and I've tried every suggestion I have seen. I am troubleshooting an application that runs a "scheduler" service to periodically export *.txt files to a ...
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WFF - NTFS Permissions Propagation across Farm
Wondering how to configure WFF to copy NTFS permissions from the primary server to all of the secondary servers. I also have multiple "applications" or websites on the farm with different application ...
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NTFS Permissions Auditing with PowerShell
I am working on a project where I need to be able to audit various users and user group permissions on a NTFS formatted Windows file server. I would like to use PowerShell and have it recursively ...
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Getting Windows Server 2008 R2 to Recognize Large Volume
I've got a server with 16 1TB SATA drives in it. It was set as a single RAID5 volume. Unfortunately, Windows was showing two unallocated volumes during the windows setup, one as 2TB, and then the ...
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directory of hardlinks on NTFS appears to be consuming more space than it should
Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Ultimate both exhibit this behaviour...
So I have directory structure like... YEAR\MONTH\file_x.ext, where YEAR goes back to 2007 and each MONTH directory contains ...
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Mount LUN from SAN at the same time in Windows and Linux
I have a mounted NTFS partition under Windows (2003) and Linux (RHEL 5.7) at the same time. The LUN resides on SAN and is presented to both servers at the same time. At first, the setup looks ok as I ...
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Recovering a deleted Firebird database file?
I've got a client running a radio server which essentially uses Firebird as the database. (Databases are stored in files ending in *.fdb anywhere on the filesystem, think SQLite) I had to reinstall ...
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Virtual linux drive on a NAS - recommendations
I have a Linux server currently running under a Microsoft Virtual Machine. I have it set up so that the storage drive is set up as a secondary virtual disk. I need to move this machine to a new box ...
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Linux - Test the write speed of an NTFS HDD USB drive
I have a Debian box with an USB HDD drive formated in NTFS connected to it. I would like to test the write speed of it because with samba, when I upload files to it from my Windows 7 laptop, I got ...
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Set ntfs permissions so that a file can be read, but no browsing of the directory
OK folks, I don't think this is possible, but:
Got a client who needs to allow domain users to read files in a directory.
The catch is, he does NOT want them to BROWSE the directory.
basically, ...
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NTFS Permissions-Special Permissions not working
I am using Windows 2008 R2 Server having a CENTRAL SHARED FOLDER (CENTRALSTORAGE). We are trying to give Domain Users in the Network access as like User1-\CentralStorage\IT\User1 and ...
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I have a 21TB array but only 16TB is visible from Windows
CONTROLLER
Raid Controller: 3Ware 9650SE-24M8
Disks: 21 x 1TB RAID5
Stripe 64KB
WINDOWS
OS: Windows Server 2003 SP2 32x
Disk: Dynamic 19557.44GB
Volume: Capacity 15832.19GB
I guess my array ...
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Uploading to a Samba Share at less than a MB/s?
I have a Debian box on which iv plugged in a usb external hard drive formated with NTFS. This HDD is 2TB. I mounted that usb drive using mount:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf1 /media/backup
I then ...
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How does Linux's unlink on a NTFS filesystem differs from Window's own implementation? [closed]
I have an external USB disk with an NTFS filesystem on it.
If I remove a file from Windows and I run one of the several "undelete" utilities (say, TestDisk) I can easily recover the file (because ...
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Corrupted Data when Transferring Files over Network from Mac OSX Snow Leopard Server to Windows 7 Server
Two servers. Mac OSX Snow Leopard, and a PC with Windows 7 as Server.
Either way, when the Mac attempts to add files to a shared windows folder, the data is sometimes corrupted and can't be read. ...
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NTFS: Restore deleted files by unflag delete state only (not copy files to another drive)
I am looking for a solution to restore deleted files on a NTFS Volume. No new files are written to the disk so all files has the condition "Excellent". But i have no storage room to copy the deleted ...
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Why is NTFS better than FAT32? [closed]
Just wondering why NTFS is considered better, and how NTFS manages to do so (structure, actions, etc), compared to FAT.
thanks! :)
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Samba, NTFS drive and win7
I've just added to my unix server ( just shoved it in) an ntfs drive with some stuff and I want to access it through win7 (home edition). After a small struggle I've managed to get access to the ...
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What is on a HDD sectors 1 through 62 under MBR-NTFS?
I do not understand why my partitions always start on absolute sector 63. What is the purpose of sectors 1 through 62? I understand sector 1 is the MBR but what about the rest? Thanks!
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Bulk Directory Permissions
So I'm looking for some advice/guidance on my issue:
Our file server was originally setup incorrectly by providing permissions to individual users rather than than groups. Ive been in the process of ...
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Is it possible to mount a disk device with different file system type?
I wonder why mount command takes file system type option like "mount -t type ...". It can find out device's file system type and choose related parameter. Is it possible to mount disks with a file ...
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Convert ext4 partition to NTFS
Is there a tool or command to achieve it? I did some search around here I didn’t find the answer. Is that possible?
I must mention that my ext4 drive that I want to convert have data so it must just ...
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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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Can't access NTFS file after BSOD. Corruption undetectable by chkdsk?
We have several files on a Windows server that show up in directory listings but can't be accessed. I can take ownership of the files, and the ACL shows that Everyone has read/write/execute access; ...
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gpt partition for raid 6 that was 4.5TB, will i have any issues under server 2008 64bit r2?
has anyone had any issues with using one large gpt partition of 5TB on a raid 6 setup with a 3ware raid controller. i am using the partition as a basic file sharing backup repository, nothing fancy. ...
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Ensuring no EFS files remain on a Windows XP SP3 system
Lets say I have a user in my organization who has forgotten his/her Windows logon password to their office computer. As an IT manager, I can log in via the Administrator and reset that user's ...
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User NTFS rights
We are having some problems with securing our desktop machines.
Each machine has a C-drive with a DATA folder in it.
We want our users to only be possible to access the data folder and not the root.
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Resizing NTFS partitions impossible
yesterday night I converted a physical server into a virtual one. I used the vCenter Converter from VMware for this task. After converting and deploying the server as a virtual machine I enlarged the ...
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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
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NTFS recovery after installing ESXi
I got this server where I had a Windows 2003 installation on, and I didn't think I needed it anymore, so I desided to install ESXi on it for testing purpose.
But now I just found out that there where ...
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NTFS : The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation
In my OCZ 240GB PCI-Express SSD, I create huge files and after write about two files 45GB and 45GB the software throw exception "The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system ...
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Most efficient way to monitor I/O of dfsr.exe of a specific directory?
For instance, if DFS-R replicates c:\data\, how do I see how much data in c:\data\ dfsr.exe reads and writes.
Process Monitor is a little too robust, as it hooks the APIs, making the I/O completely ...
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What is the best/easiest way to change the RAID configuration of a Windows Server and Restore it to its last working configuration with more space?
I have a Dell Server with 6 1TB Drives in it. Currently the drives are configured into two RAID groups:
Existing
Group 1: 2 x 1TB in RAID 1 (1TB Usable) C: Drive (Windows 2008 r2 Boot Partition ...
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How do I view NTFS metadata?
On a Windows Server 2008 R2 file server, we are encountering a memory usage problem. We used RAMMap to troubleshoot, and found that 10GB of NTFS Metadata is being cached in memory and never gets ...
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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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Periodically completely lose access to a file (cannot take ownership) in Win 2k8 R2
Running Win 2k8 R2 SP1 64 bit as a web server box with IIS 7/.NET 4.
Periodically, I completely lose access to the membership database in one of my sites (ASPNETDB) which causes a "Network Service ...
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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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Any fast way to assign NTFS permissions to a folder with a very big amount of subfolders and files?
I'm trying to change NTFS permission to a folder containing a very big hierarchy below. I'm using the traditional approach (right mouse button, properties, security, etc) It's taking really long and ...
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NTFS or FAT32:Formatting Disk for PFSense
Im a network guy, and know very little about system administration. I would like to install PFSense and Monowall to 2 CF Cards, but not sure how they should be formatted (NTFS or FAT32) and volume ...
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Prevent folder deletes at top level only on Server 2008
I'm trying to prevent folders moves, really folder delete in NTFS parlance, for series of folders within a network share.
So let's say I have: FolderA, FolderB, FolderC. Each folder has various ...
