How To Change Raw File System To Ntfs

[Clinio Lofton]

Ihave a dual boot system with 3 partitions, Windows 10, Debian 9 and a NTFS partition, that I use for shared files. I used to install Dropbox on both system using the same folder in the shared partition. Now I recieve the error message "To sync your Dropbox, Move your Dropbox folder to a partition with a compatible File System. Dropbox is compatible with Ext4.". This is, probably, due to the File System support changes.

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Yes, I'm wondering that, as well. As I said, I used to have just one copy of the folder in a shared NTFS drive which I could access from Linux and Windows drives. They must have done that for security reasons, or something like that. As we might be a small percentage of users doing so, this will propably not be solved.

It seems that I haven't explain (in my previous post) very well what I mean. And it is that, You shouldn't rely on workaround, coming from Dropbox. But, this doesn't mean that working workaround couldn't be found! Read carefully the refereed thread.. There are tips which can lead You to solution. Of course every such solutions could be temporary - It seems, We (I mean affected users) and Dropbox are playing game for mices and cat...

Please always include the line with the prompt and the command. Not only the output. We should also see what you did, not only what you got.

Now I assume that thi is the complete and unabridged contents of your /etc/fstab.

There is no entry for your NTFS file sytem. Thus I assume that it is mounted through the desktop. That wonders me a bit, because my impression is that mounting through the desktop is always done without execute permission.

Andshow us at least the ownership and permissions of one of the files in there:

ls -l

where you should replace of course by the name of a file within the NTFS file system (e.g. one of those videos?)

There is no use to do that twice. mounting something may look into the fstab, but it does not change anything there. And how did you mount it? Again, do not assume that just telling stories is clear enough. We need exact commands, or other descriptions.

Try to avoid using non-Linux file system as much as possible (you see the problems now). Only use them for direct exchange with non-Linux operating systems.

My advice is thus: you can put a video on it to exchange with a friend that uses a MS system. Or the other way around. But never use the video from the non-Linux file system to play it. Or do not edit documents there. You should do that when they are on your Linux system. After all you (at least partly) have Linux because of security. Do not throw that away by using non-Linux file systems for day to day work.

Also, I find it strange that you have to enter the root password. As end-user, you should not know that (and when you happen to be the same human as the system manager, you should at least do as if you do not know that). Maybe a Cinnamon trick.

It is now mounted different, with a different NTFS handler and now the owner is root:root (and thus not 1000:100 (noha:users) and the permissions may be different because of default_permissions, of which I do not know what they are (but you can check for yourself).

An automatic backup application is one example of a program that must check for changes to the state of a volume to perform its task. The brute force method of checking for changes in directories or files is to scan the entire volume. However, this is often not an acceptable approach because of the decrease in system performance it would cause. Another method is for the application to register a directory notification (by calling the FindFirstChangeNotification or ReadDirectoryChangesW functions) for the directories to be backed up. This is more efficient than the first method, however, it requires that an application be running at all times. Also, if a large number of directories and files must be backed up, the amount of processing and memory overhead for such an application might also cause the operating system's performance to decrease.

To avoid these disadvantages, the NTFS file system maintains an update sequence number (USN) change journal. When any change is made to a file or directory in a volume, the USN change journal for that volume is updated with a description of the change and the name of the file or directory.

Change journals are also needed to recover file system indexing for example after a computer or volume failure. The ability to recover indexing means the file system can avoid the time-consuming process of reindexing the entire volume in such cases.

New Technology File System (NTFS) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft.[2][1] Starting with Windows NT 3.1, it is the default file system of the Windows NT family.[11] It superseded File Allocation Table (FAT) as the preferred filesystem on Windows and is also supported in Linux and BSD. NTFS reading and writing support is provided using a free and open-source kernel implementation known as NTFS3 in Linux and the NTFS-3G driver in BSD.[12][13] Using the convert command, Windows can convert FAT32/16/12 into NTFS without needing to rewrite all files.[14] NTFS uses several files typically hidden from the user to store metadata about other files stored on the drive which can help improve speed and performance when reading data.[1] Unlike FAT and High Performance File System (HPFS), NTFS supports access control lists (ACLs), filesystem encryption, transparent compression, sparse files and file system journaling. NTFS also supports shadow copy to allow backups of a system while it is running, but the functionality of the shadow copies varies between different versions of Windows.[15]

In the mid-1980s, Microsoft and IBM formed a joint project to create the next generation of graphical operating system; the result was OS/2 and HPFS. Because Microsoft disagreed with IBM on many important issues, they eventually separated; OS/2 remained an IBM project and Microsoft worked to develop Windows NT and NTFS.

The HPFS file system for OS/2 contained several important new features. When Microsoft created their new operating system, they borrowed many of these concepts for NTFS.[16] The original NTFS developers were Tom Miller, Gary Kimura, Brian Andrew, and David Goebel.[17]

Probably as a result of this common ancestry, HPFS and NTFS use the same disk partition identification type code (07). Using the same Partition ID Record Number is highly unusual, since there were dozens of unused code numbers available, and other major file systems have their own codes. For example, FAT has more than nine (one each for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, etc.). Algorithms identifying the file system in a partition type 07 must perform additional checks to distinguish between HPFS and NTFS.

Although subsequent versions of Windows added new file system-related features, they did not change NTFS itself. For example, Windows Vista implemented NTFS symbolic links, Transactional NTFS, partition shrinking, and self-healing.[23] NTFS symbolic links are a new feature in the file system; all the others are new operating system features that make use of NTFS features already in place.

While the different NTFS versions are for the most part fully forward- and backward-compatible, there are technical considerations for mounting newer NTFS volumes in older versions of Microsoft Windows. This affects dual-booting, and external portable hard drives. For example, attempting to use an NTFS partition with "Previous Versions" (Volume Shadow Copy) on an operating system that does not support it will result in the contents of those previous versions being lost.[15] A Windows command-line utility called convert.exe can convert supporting file systems to NTFS, including HPFS (only on Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, and 3.51), FAT16 and FAT32 (on Windows 2000 and later).[27][28]

FreeBSD 3.2 released in May 1999 included read-only NTFS support written by Semen Ustimenko.[29][30] This implementation was ported to NetBSD by Christos Zoulas and Jaromir Dolecek and released with NetBSD 1.5 in December 2000.[31] The FreeBSD implementation of NTFS was also ported to OpenBSD by Julien Bordet and offers native read-only NTFS support by default on i386 and amd64 platforms as of version 4.9 released 1 May 2011.[update][32][30]

Linux kernel versions 2.1.74 and later include a driver written by Martin von Lwis which has the ability to read NTFS partitions;[33] kernel versions 2.5.11 and later contain a new driver written by Anton Altaparmakov (University of Cambridge) and Richard Russon which supports file read.[34][35][33] The ability to write to files was introduced with kernel version 2.6.15 in 2006 which allows users to write to existing files but does not allow the creation of new ones.[36] Paragon's NTFS driver (see below) has been merged into kernel version 5.15, and it supports read/write on normal, compressed and sparse files, as well as journal replaying.[37]

NTFS-3G is a free GPL-licensed FUSE implementation of NTFS that was initially developed as a Linux kernel driver by Szabolcs Szakacsits. It was re-written as a FUSE program to work on other systems that FUSE supports like macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,[38] Solaris, QNX, and Haiku[39] and allows reading and writing to NTFS partitions. A performance enhanced commercial version of NTFS-3G, called "Tuxera NTFS for Mac", is also available from the NTFS-3G developers.[40]

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