Questions tagged [ntfs]
NTFS is the primary file system of all modern versions of Windows.
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NTFS permissions headache
I have an administration account which is a member of the Domain Admins group. This group has Full Control to the root of a drive on a file server, however, when I log into the server with my admin ...
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Install SCM software, accessible on the same PC all the time between Ubuntu and Windows? [closed]
My PC is dual boot, Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10.
What would be the best approach to install SCM(Source Code Management) software but being able to use it(access it) all the time, from Windows and ...
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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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Error 0x8007045D when trying to copy a file
I have a Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 machine and I'm trying to copy a file that is 4.00GB on an NTFS drive and am getting the following error:
Error 0x8007045D: The request could be performed ...
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Share permission odd behavior
I have a odd permission issue since I switched to Server 2016. Had no issue with the same share permissions under 2012 R2.
Share is always set to Everyone FC and I always manage the permissions with ...
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Mac does not respect Windows Share Folder NTFS permissions
Mac station mounts Windows Network Share using "MAC" user credentials:
NTFS permissions set to MAC user are these:
Share Permission of VMAX CLIPS are: Everyone > Control Total. In this case only ...
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Cannot save Office files on shared network drive without delete permission
I have a group that ALL employees are assigned to. I have the CREATOR user set the same way. They have all the RW permissions but no delete.
Everything works as expected, however, Office related ...
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comparing ntfs disk images
I have two copies of an ntfs partition on a linux server (old backups). If I mount them as loop device, and compare the content file by file, there is no difference between them. But comparing these ...
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Boot partition but not Active Partition [closed]
I bought a computer that runs Windows 7. The HDD contains three Partitions: C, D and a System Reserved partition without a drive letter.
As default, the C:\ drive is the boot directory that contains ...
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How to give “Network Service” permissions on another non-domain computer?
I have PostgreSQL running on a Win10 Pro box (called DBServer) on my local network. I need to allow it to read files on my Dev computer (also Win10 Pro) on the same network so it can import files.
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Assign NTFS permission using Powershell via CSV
I have a CSV file as below
Foldername---------- Securitygroup
Folder1---------- SG_Folder1-Access
Folder2---------- SG_Folder2-Access
I need to assign permissions like below,
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NTFS partition header shifted by 4 bytes?
I have one large NTFS partition on an external disk which "doesn't work" any more and I'm trying to recover data from it. When I try to use it (using GNU/Linux) I'm told the partition doesn't contain ...
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How to add explicit NTFS permissions without disabling inheritance on child folders
I have a scenario with lot of child folders and some of them needs to have explicit NTFS permissions without disabling inherited NTFS permissions. Looks something like below
root (contains NTFS ...
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Powershell - checking if a file is a Linux symbolic link
I'm migrating a NetApp NTFS based filesystem. It is mounted on both Windows and Linux boxes. My validation script in Powershell is walking the file system and doing various checks that the source and ...
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NTFS permissions: allow delete or replace, while denying update on a file
Is it possible to restrict a user where they are unable to edit or update a file, while allowing them the ability to overwrite the entire file or delete the file to replace it with an updated file?
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On deduped volumes, how can I determine space used in a folder with Measure-DedupFileMetadata
I'm trying to understand how Measure-DedupFileMetadata works so I can recursively go through some folders to report on how much space is actually used. I don't know how to interpret the output.
If I ...
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NTFS Access Control Entries difference between icacls output and GUI
When I add/edit NTFS permissions for a user/group from command line via icacls application, i get multiple ACE entries in the list for the same thing, while from the GUI every ACE (since they are all ...
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NTFS partition crashes chkdsk
Unfortunately I had a couple of hard resets on a machine and it seems to have damaged an NTFS partition. O/S is Windows 2012R2.
C:\Users\Administrator>chkdsk d:
The type of the file system is ...
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Removing a recursive folder that's not recursive in windows fails with "Source Path Too Long"
I seem to have managed to get an Application Data folder recurse into itself somehow, doesn't look recursive but somehow still is and now I find myself unable to remove that folder. The folder itself ...
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NTFS Compression with Deduplication?
I have installed the Data Deduplication role on Windows Server 2016. Per Microsoft, it's using NTFS compression to help save space:
Data deduplication stores more data in less physical space. It ...
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How to control the volume format options on Windows Server 2012 R2
I'm working on developing a standard build for our environment and our security controls require all volumes to be NTFS. Is there a way to control the available choices when formatting a volume? ...
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Robocopy permission issue
I'm using robocopy to sync files between two different servers (one of them is not a Windows server but exposes Windows-like shares); but I'm having a permission issue.
I need to replicate all ...
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Add one group to NTFS permission without disrupting other permissions
I have a large and messy shared drive to which I need to give one user (group) read only access throughout.
This has grown over the years and has hundreds of groups with varying levels of access and ...
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Unaccounted storage usage
On many different servers running many different versions of Windows Server we use AhsayOBM to backup to cloud and USB-connected external HDDs which generally has no problems.
However, one server ...
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mount partion (ntfs) - output from testdisk
I use a raw block (whole disk like /dev/sdb1) as KVM virtual disk. Anyone know how to mount that partition from the host?
My testdisk output is like this:
~# testdisk /list /dev/sdb1
TestDisk 7.0, ...
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Folder Effective Permissions Not Accurate
I have a folder on a Windows Server Standard 2008 that is shared. There is a user that I need to restrict access to this folder. They connect over VPN. When I look at the Effective Permissions, this ...
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Expanding 16 TB volume using Windows dynamic disks
We have a 16 TB volume that lives on a SAN LUN attached to a Windows 2008 file server. We are unable to expand the SAN LUN any further on it's current SAN and will need to have our storage team ...
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How do I tune windows server 2012 R2 to handle NTFS file structure with 50 million files?
I have a developer utility that I will use to generate 50 Million files. The directory structure goes four levels deep. The top level contains 16 directories (years 2000-2016), next level - months (1-...
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NTFS ACL discrepancy in powershell
I have a case, where a user once had access to a directory and that user has been removed now. In fact their account has been deleted out of the AD entirely.
Typically when one sees a user deleted, ...
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NTFS Write-Once Files
for backup purposes I have an external HDD, an I'm on Windows.
What and how should I set (up?) so that files can be written to the drive once but there should be no way they can be deleted or ...
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Why do I sometimes get numbers back from the FileSystemRights access field when checking the ACL Access?
Sometimes I'll run a command like this, and I'll get back some easy to read, easy to interpret text:
PS D:\test> (get-acl test.txt).Access | Select FileSystemRights
FileSystemRights
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NTFS volume total size differ so it's cluster count by different internal operating system tools/commands
Why the count is reported different by various tools/commands within same OS ?
1) Under Microsoft Windows MyComputer properties of C: capacity is reported as 27,454,861,312 bytes = 6702847 clusters (...
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System.Security.AccessControl.PropagationFlags Powershell Equivalent GUI use?
Note: This is not a duplicate of the question "System.Security.AccessControl.InheritanceFlags PowerShell Enumeration Equivalent GUI use?"
I'm in a strange predicament. I understand the concept of ...
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System.Security.AccessControl.InheritanceFlags PowerShell Enumeration Equivalent GUI use?
Note: This is not a duplicate of the question "System.Security.AccessControl.PropagationFlags Powershell Equivalent GUI use?"
I'm in a strange predicament. I understand the concept of ACE ...
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Robocopy fails with security error copying "from nas to nas". Why?
[Hi all. Sorry for cross-posting. I originally posted this on stackoverflow, but later realize it's a better fit for server-fault. ]
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robocopy has security problems copying from 'nas to nas'
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Enforcing audit settings for all subfolders and files on NTFS
On Windows 7 I would like to enforce auditing on all subfolders and files for a specific local folder, by using the included Windows auditing features. When a user moves a file from the same NTFS ...
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Automaticly apply 'list folders' permission to parental folders when user granted access to subfolder in Access Based Enumeration share
Firstly apologies if some of my terminology is off, I'm pretty new to Windows networking and Active Directory.
We're running a Windows Server 2008R2 fileserver and I've been tasked with restructuring ...
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Windows fileserver and ABE
I am in the process of creating a new Windows 2008R2 file server and have some issues with Access Based Enumaration.
I don't just want to migrate all data and permissions as our structure is grown ...
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Takeown You do not have permission to read the contents of directory
Is there a reason I get this error when taking ownership of a directory?
It works fine if I go through the permissions in the GUI, but if I try to do if from the command line I get an error that I ...
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Shared folder write-self, read all permission
We wanted a shared folder where employees can add and modify their own files, but only had “Read” permission to the files other employees have created.
How can we set permissions for this folder?
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How to simulate a WORM environment w/Active Directory/NTFS
In NTFS/Active Directory, assume I have two drives mapped:
H:\
I:\
Users can edit files in H:\, but not in I:\ . I want users to be able to, using a script, move their files to the I:\ drive unless ...
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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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NTFS: User can edit/delete files without rights
I have a very strange NTFS rights phenomenon on a fileserver and I cannot find my mistake, pulling my hair out for hours now. What am I missing?
My goal is:
User from Group-A should be able to write ...
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Share and NTFS Permissions on a File Server
I have a folder A and inside two files B and C
What I need is that the user "XPTO" as access to read B and write on C.
Usually I give the permission "list folder contents" on folder and then give a ...
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Windows Server: file system limitation
We are developing an app for tablet which uploads and saves photos taken by the user. The problem we are suddenly meeting is that photos are not saved anymore in our directory in our Windows server ...
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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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Why does .vhdx take up much more space than the actual files - NTFS
We seem to have a number of NTFS drives like this where they consume much more space on the virtual disk than they do as files.
Noticed the problem when Windows Server Backup was taking-up much more ...
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Strange NTFS Permissions issue on Windows Share + Win 8.1 Clients
Server 2012 R2 file server -- the share is exposed over a DFS namespace.
I have a group called "share" that all the users are members of. This group has read/write access to the root of the DFS share ...
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Access denied on single file with explicit permissions set
I have a Windows 2008R2 server that has a weird permissions issue. I have a single file in a share that has inheritance disabled and explicit permissions set on the file. The only groups that have ...
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Get hardlink count for a file on Windows (without fsutil, which requires admin)
I have various files which I've created as hardlinks to others using mklink. I need a command I can use inside a batch file to determine which files in a given directory have only one link to it. I ...
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