Questions tagged [ntfs]
NTFS is the primary file system of all modern versions of Windows.
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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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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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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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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 it possible to grant rename permissions, but not delete, in NTFS?
We have a folder for employees to scan contracts to. After scanning, they're supposed to rename them according to our conventions so they can be processed further. In response to a recent incident, ...
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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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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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How can I use NTFS and iSCSI and not corrupt my SAN?
I know you can't use multiples NTFS machines/servers with the same SAN iSCSI target without corruption. I have multiple servers, however, that need access to the same data on the same SAN.
I do not ...
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Rsync command to synchronize two NTFS drives?
I have a 2 1.5TB drives containing numerous video, audio, documents etc that I would like to essentially mirror to 2 other drives for backup. I would like to do this using rsync (as it seems the most ...
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Why can't I browse my D: drive, even if I'm in the Administrators group?
My fileserver running Windows Server 2008 has two logical drives; the C: drive contains all of the system and application data, and the D: drive contains all of the business data. There are several ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Virtual drive ...
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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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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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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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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
/dev/sde1 * ...
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Linux NTFS to NTFS rsync repeatedly recopying files
I wish to backup data mounted on an NTFS partition of a linux machine to the NTFS partition of another linux machine. The local NTFS drive is mounted with all files owned by root.root, but the remote ...
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Set windows permissions to allow modify, but not execute
Is it possible to set permissions on a folder in Windows (Server 2003 64bit) so that an account can write and modify, but not execute?
If I set modify permissions, windows seems to insist I also set ...
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‘noexec’ option on NTFS under Windows?
Is there equivalent filesystem option on Windows like 'noexec' mount option on Linux? Is it the same if I set "Read" permission, but unset "Read & Execute" permisson on root directory (whole drive)...
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How to restore missing space in NTFS file systems
I have a 40 GB USB hard drive formatted with NTFS on a PC running Windows XP Pro, SP3. I am trying to free as much space as possible. Windows Explorer tells me that I have about 200 MB of files on ...
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How can I set the NTFS permissions on a folder for a WORM like behaviour
Is it possible to set group permission on a folder at a Windows server so that a file can be created, populated and closed, BUT not changed or deleted after that?
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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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Is there a way to force group membership changes to be refreshed on clients?
I'm working with a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller which is being used primarily as a file server. The clients on this network are mostly not domain users, but instead use domain user ...
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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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How much performance is gained from setting NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation = 1?
You can tune NTFS with different parameters in the registry and an TechNet articles states that you increase file performance by setting NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 1 in the registry.
In real ...
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How to restrict deletion of a folder on NTFS share, but still allow modify access within folder
I am setting up a set of scan folders from a scanning copier device, and would like to know the best way to protect the folders (for each department) from moving or deletion, but yet still allow ...
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Shrink NTFS Partition Windows 2003
We have an iSCSI target provided by a CentOS server attached to a Windows Server 2003 Standard box, formatted in NTFS.
My question is this - I know we can resize the backend block device fine (LVM et ...
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Removing deny everyone permissions from GPO
As part of the workaround for CVE-2014-1776 I created a group policy object that applied Deny permissions to everyone on VGX.DLL. I am now trying to undo this group policy and having a lot of trouble....
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When a file is copied on NTFS the Modified Date is also copied?
I need to know if I can trust the Modified Date attribute of a file, there is any way to make a file seem older than it truly is?
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Windows Server 2008 - change security settings for multiple files at once
On Windows Server 2008, is there an easy way to modify security permissions for multiple files at once (as with Windows Server 2003)? Right-click menu -> properties does not provide a "Security" tab ...
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Mount NTFS (read/write capability) filesystem on RHEL 5 (2.6.8-18.el5)
I'm using RHEL 5.0 with the kernel 2.6.8-18.el5. I want to mount my external hard disk drive with the NTFS file system. I cannot mount it because it doesn't support NTFS file system. Error msg: mount: ...
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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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Best way to reset all security/ownership for NTFS?
How can I completely reset the security and ownership for a drive (ie. all subdirectories and files)?
I'm recreating a large RAID array and I'd like to "start fresh" with the absolute default ...
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Why is the total size of my files on Windows 7 more than total disk size?
I have a virtual machine with Windows 7 x64 quest OS. When I boot from PE OS CD and run file manager (Total Commander) I see that the total size of my files on virtual machine is more than total disk ...
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When does a computer cache file permissions?
I just had an issue where users were directly added to the ACL of a folder. I created a group, added them to the group, added the group to the ACL of the folder and then removed the users and pressed ...
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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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Some subfolders on NTFS share randomly disappear and then reappear
As the title suggest,
One user has reported that most subfolders of a NTFS share keep disappearing and then reappearing randomly.
The share has 7 folders however 6 of them keep disappearing randomly.
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Mount NTFS HDD on linux
I have an external HDD, Maxtor, with an NTFS partition on it. How can this be mounted on an RHEL5 OS?
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NTFS permissions allowing access automatically without visible inheritance
This question is unanswered on Super User, I thought it was the best place for it but no one knows. As it is related to a server, hoping it can be moved to server fault and someone can help me there.
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