_I_Sep 30, 2023

This is why people use Windows

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This is why people use Windows - Lemmy.world

Khaled: Another one [https://i.imgur.com/6U4A461.png] Please fucking explain why this is a problem. I have a folder with movies on an external HDD. I want to move them to a different subfolder. The first twenty worked fine without any issues - as expected. Then I get this error, and it doesn’t tell me why in a human language that can be understood by humans. So, I’ll go ahead and ask here. Do any of you have any idea wtf this is? I’m on Fedora 38.

Show threadGebruikersnaamSep 30, 2023
Is it an ntfs partition that you opened on Windows? I remember getting an error like that cause Windows does some weird permission things. Other than that I’d try with the command line or a different file manager to try and discover what the error is.
Show thread_I_
It is indeed NTFS. I use the same HDD between a Fedora and Win 11 dual-boot, then the single HDD is being used by Plex, so no matter if I’m logged into Fedora or Win 11, it’ll mount and read the content. It’s just acting REALLY weird right now. About half of the content got moved to the new folder, while the rest of them errors out.
Sep 30, 2023 at 8:14pmWeb
Show threadpancakeSep 30, 2023
One way to see it is that if you tried to use a Linux filesystem on Windows, it would entirely refuse to read it. At least Linux can handle Window’s filesystems to a reasonable degree.
Show threadcodapineSep 30, 2023

Nemo on Windows can read extfs partitions better than NTFS plays with Linux. It’s more of a problem with proprietary file systems, not the open source file manager trying it’s best to reverse engineer the protocol.

When I dual booted, I would just share the extfs partition because it worked the best on both systems, once the extfs driver for Windows was installed.

Show threadlemmyvoreSep 30, 2023

Are you shutting down Windows without going through proper restart?

Windows has this really nasty habit of leaving NTFS partitions “dirty” until the next reboot, and fixing them on the fly when it starts. Meanwhile, if Linux is trying to use those partitions it will run into inconsistencies that will cause all kinds of errors.

There’s no easy fix for this, other than shutting down Windows properly and hoping it left everything in working order. You can try using ntfsfix on Linux before mounting the partition but it’s anybody’s guess if it will fix everything.

You can’t use another file system because exFAT and FAT are even worse than NTFS, and that’s all Windows supports natively.

You can try the other way around and mounting Linux ext4 partitions under Windows using WSL2. I know it can be done, I haven’t tried and can’t tell you what performance is like.

Show thread_I_Sep 30, 2023
Thank you for a proper reply. That could in fact be the case. I booted into Windows and tried to move all my movies into the folder, and it worked without issues, so I’m not entirely sure what happened in Fedora, but oh well.
Show threadwantd2B1ofthestrokesSep 30, 2023
You were given almost all proper responses despite your unhinged edit rantings