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ntfs-3g is a tool to configure NTFS file system.

The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the notable exception of file ownership and access right changes.

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Unable to mount NTFS external hard drive

I am having trouble mounting my external hard drive, every time I try and do so I get the following message: "Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/fuzzy27/My Book: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o…
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What causes high CPU usage by mount.ntfs?

I'm in Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit. mount.ntfs use high CPU--40%. I have Intel Core i5-3210M. Why is this happening? lsblk: NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL sda 465.8G ├─sda1 ntfs 300M Windows…
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How to Mount NTFS partition in Ubuntu 16.04

I'm new to Ubuntu. Installed ubuntu by formatting my existing C Drive in Windows 10 OS. So I have only Ubuntu in my laptop. My D drive is left untouched which is a NTFS file system. Please guide me how to mount this so that I can work with my files.
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How do I install ntfs-3g (ntfsprogs) manually on Ubuntu?

To fix a SATA hard disk with a damaged NTFS file system, I tried to follow the process documented at Ubuntu 13.04 is unable to mount a disk drive from ex-windows system which entails the use of the ntfsprogs utility. I couldn't find the package…
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Remove RECYCLER directory from virus infected flash drive

Before you advise me on the option of saving my files and formatting the drive using gparted, please understand that I could have done that hours back and that would have taken only a few minutes. Actually, I want to understand, what is really…
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Can't mount NTFS partition with write permissions

I am running Ubuntu 16.10 and during setup I added my data drive which is ntfs, to automount in /etc/fstab file. The entry looks like this - UUID=EA469A60469A2D77 /alpha ntfs-3g…
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Mount FAT32: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem

Xubuntu 14.04. nfts-3g is installed. /dev/sdc is the Flash drive. I have created new partition with fdisk (tried with cfdisk too). Tried with W95 FAT32 code and W95 FAT32 (LBA) code. ("b" and "c" in fdisk). After writing the changes I try to mount…
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NTFS disk is read-only and I can't change to read & write

I have used Windows 7 for a long time and thought to give Linux (Ubuntu) a try. I have two hard drives, one 120GB, other 1TB. First one is for OS and software, while the 1TB disk is for data and games. So I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on the 120GB disk…
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No permission to automount external HDD using ntfs-3g

I wanted to modify my mount options for my NTFS external HDD so that I can execute programs on it. I added the following line to my fstab accordingly: UUID=CE665A3F665A290B /media/Josh ntfs-3g defaults,users,nofail 0 0 But when I plug in my…
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apache forbidden to acces `index` file on ntfs partition

After Installing my apache, i edited the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file, and added in the bottom-line, the following code: DocumentRoot /media/username/DATA/docs/pathtowebsite/website ServerName localhost The…
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Is there a way to know what really caused a specific segfault?

I recently bought a new motherboard/cpu (Asus Rog Strix z690-a gaming wifi D4/Intel i7 12700K) and initially used my existing ubuntu 20.04 installation which I had installed when I had my previous z370 motherboard. During my initial usage (training…
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Files from Windows with 'unsupported reparse point' on ubuntu

I'm trying to pass some files that I have on Windows to a HD. As I lost my Windows user password I'm recovering those files through an Ubuntu usb (20.04 focal). However, some files and folders were shared with OneDrive. When I copied those files to…
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FUSE options on 18.04 vs 14.04

I have two Ubuntu installations: 14.04 LST (3.13.0-160-generic #210-Ubuntu) 18.04 LST (4.15.0-36-generic #39-Ubuntu) On system #1 (14.04), when a NTFS partition is (auto?)mounted, then the permissions work properly. There are these two lines in…
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Cannot mount external hard disk, MFT records error

I am trying to mount a Western Digital "My Book" drive, which I used to share between Linux and Windows. It is formatted in NTFS. When I connect it on Windows, I get the message that the disk is corrupted and cannot be read. In Linux I get the…
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Why can't I resize NTFS partition?

I'm trying to resize my ntfs partition but can't do it in GParted... tried from HD and from LiveUSB... couldn't find a solution on the web, partition isn't mounted; I'm trying to divide it in two to install another Ubuntu version. I used Ubuntu…
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