_I_Sep 30, 2023

This is why people use Windows

https://lemmy.world/post/6045055

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_Sep 30, 2023
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.
Show threadpancake
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.
Sep 30, 2023 at 8:22pmWeb
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.