How to transfer big files from a windows 10 NTFS drive to a linux drive | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:01 PM

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So long story short, I tried to transfer over a 600gb folder from a win 10 ntfs drive to a linux drive, thought I lost a bunch of really old sentimental files and felt REALLY REALLY CRAPPY, as a final resort booted up windows 10, the files show in the folder ??????????????????????????????

Listen I learnt my lesson, ALWAYS TAKE COMPATIBILITY INTO ACCOUNT, for all things in life okay? :) But this really is bugging me, HOW do I transfer files over from a windows 10 drive to a nvme (i think. the little one) ssd with linux mint

On linux some files are not showing at all, there are input output errors, a whole load of baloney! if really need be I could buy another hard drive to bring those files over (they aren't really urgent need NOW files) but I would prefer to bring them over to the SSD, format the HDD to ext4 or whatever mint is on then bring them back.

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:24 PM

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I can right click on a folder in linux, and it can show as like 0 bytes but in windows the folder does have things in it, so yea, I can also give edxtra information need be

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some video files don't even play fully, they skip randomly, so I think linux is thinking that part of the data doesn't exist at all, but really I'm unsure

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also sorry if this is the wrong place to ask,

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:34 PM

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crisp eagle I can right click on a folder in linux, and it can show as like 0 bytes but in w...

using windows 10, OR Hirens Boot CD, run chkdsk on the NTFS drive in question

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if you suspect files are missing on the NTFS drive, use the /r switch

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if just need repair, use the /f switch

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:36 PM

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nono, the issue is moreso on linux those files don't show up

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:37 PM

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are thos same files OPENABLE and FULLY READABLE on the NTFS drive in Windows 10?

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:37 PM

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yes, I can try again to verify

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like for example, okay It will take a bit for me to give you the 2 screenshots so bare with me

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:38 PM

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I won't bare with you, but I'll bear (the burden) with you

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:38 PM

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muted vine I won't bare with you, but I'll bear (the burden) with you

Numero one, also thank you :)

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:39 PM

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this 1000 GB volume, is that shown as NTFS in the Disks app?

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:43 PM

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muted vine this 1000 GB volume, is that shown as NTFS in the Disks app?

Id have to check but it is windows 10

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I checked on windows it's ntfs

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:44 PM

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oh

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so ther is an OS on this 1 TB drive eh?

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:45 PM

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Yea I had an old HDD but got a new SSD a while back and I just used the old HDD to store files

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:45 PM

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hit win+r and do diskmgmt.msc

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then show it plz

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:46 PM

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crisp eagle Yea I had an old HDD but got a new SSD a while back and I just used the old HDD ...

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crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:47 PM

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Sorry wait phones being weird

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:47 PM

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crisp eagle Sorry wait phones being weird

landscape oriented pic too plz

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of the whole disk management window

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:48 PM

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muted vine landscape oriented pic too plz

Kk

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Sorry it took a while discord was being weird

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:50 PM

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ok so disk1 is linux i presume

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:51 PM

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Yes

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:51 PM

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how were u copying the files? directly using linux from disk0 to disk1 , or via usb stick?

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:52 PM

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It was from 0 to 1. On 1 but I think vice versa would be smarter. To do 1 to 0 on 0

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Oops

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0 to 1 on 0

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:52 PM

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the proper way would be first chkdsk drive c:

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:52 PM

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K

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:52 PM

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after it is found to be 100% error-free

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then boot into linux, and copy a few folders at a time over

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don't attempt to use ext4 recognition software on Windows to attempt to write to Linux

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or whatever filesystem type you chose for Linux

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:54 PM

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Okay I will but I tell you I was running a file diff between the directories since I noticed different file sizes and it was only a select few folders acting nasty if that gives any details

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:55 PM

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open admin command prompt, chkdsk c: /f

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:56 PM

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Oh k I added the f flag

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 10:56 PM

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then i'm sure it will prompt to do it on restart of windows

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so let it restart and make sure you pick Windows to start

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 10:56 PM

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Yep

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:01 PM

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crisp eagle Yep

completed?

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thought I lost a bunch of really old sentimental files

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^ make three copies

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original, plus one other on a different drive or medium, and one other offsite.

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:07 PM

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I will do that data stuff l, we'll they weren't REALLY old sentimental.

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And I'm in grub now should I boot to Linux

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:07 PM

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um did u let chkdsk finish?

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:07 PM

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Yes then the computer turned off

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:07 PM

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wait wait

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:07 PM

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Or I turned it off likely the former

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But it got to stage 4 100 percent

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:08 PM

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u ran the command, it asked to restart. did u let it start windows and DO THE JOB>?>>

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:08 PM

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muted vine wait wait

Okay, I ran the command. Shut off windows it did it's stuff

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Since it didn't ask for reboot

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:08 PM

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u mean restarted windows

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:09 PM

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muted vine u mean *restarted* windows

Probably yes

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When I booted up it immediately started it

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:09 PM

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as long as your 100% sure it did the scanning (which for a drive this size, i imagine would have taken SEVERAL minutes)

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:10 PM

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muted vine as long as your 100% sure it did the scanning (which for a drive this size, i im...

It sid

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:10 PM

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ok and were u also the same person asking about some very long mp4 file with chinese letters in filename?

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:10 PM

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Did

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:10 PM

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muted vine ok and were u also the same person asking about some very long mp4 file with chi...

Yea I copied it to a. Ntfs usb

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So it was fine afterall

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:10 PM

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on the USB, did you rename it to english letters?

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:10 PM

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No not at that point I had just moved it

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:11 PM

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alright. well make sure you're not copying that suspect one(s) over to Linux.

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from the hard drive, I mean

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that's probably what's screwing up the copying and causing file diff to show discrepancies

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:12 PM

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Well the folder is still empty on Linux, the entire drives shows itself as less full then it really is

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:12 PM

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otherwise should work to copy a few folders at a time, from in the Linux environment - from the old C: drive to the Linux SSD

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maybe the linux filesystem also needs error-correction scanning.

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:13 PM

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Okay, see the issue is that there are a few specific folders that act weird on linux

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:13 PM

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Do you have linux mint bootable CD/USB?

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:13 PM

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muted vine Do you have linux mint bootable CD/USB?

I can make one

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:13 PM

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yep

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boot that up then run lsblk -o name,model,label,fstype,size

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and find the exact linux partition

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then sudo fsck </dev/.....> that

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relacing the bracketted thing above with the actual dev name

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:15 PM

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Why with a usb?

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:16 PM

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it doesn't let u do it while mounted (so can't be running)

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:16 PM

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Ahk

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I'll take a moment

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:17 PM

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ttyl

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:40 PM

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muted vine relacing the bracketted thing above with the actual dev name

Should I do dev/nvme0n1p2 or just nvme0n1p2

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:42 PM

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it starts with /

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/dev/......

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:43 PM

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So I will include the dev and the slash

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:43 PM

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ya

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u must

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:45 PM

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I run fsck and it immediately stops

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muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:46 PM

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it's a fast device

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no errors apparently

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:48 PM

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Okay

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This is really weird now on the usb I can view those files

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H?MMM let me try booting up again on the normal

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:53 PM

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...

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:55 PM

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Nope, this is really weird

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For some reason my Linux is viewing the hard drive weirdly

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Like if 200 GB didn't exist at all

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:57 PM

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hang on

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:57 PM

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Okay

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:57 PM

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ur probably on metric units

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open nemo,

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go to edit: preferences

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in general. set display units prefixes to IEC (binary)

crisp eagle Apr 14, 2026, 11:59 PM

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Okay, there is no general tab but I'll find it

muted vine Apr 14, 2026, 11:59 PM

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can also show result of:
lsblk -o name,model,fstype,size,fssize,fsused,fsavail,mountpoint

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:00 AM

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K

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:01 AM

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should show about 930.88G for the 3rd partition in the FSSIZE column for the hdd

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:02 AM

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crisp eagle Sorry it took a while discord was being weird

or 4th partition

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:02 AM

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andrew@ark:~$ ls "/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound"
ls: reading directory '/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound': Input/output error
andrew@ark:~$ lsblk -o name,model,fstype,size,fssize,fsused,fsavail,mountpoint
NAME      MODEL              FSTYPE   SIZE FSSIZE FSUSED FSAVAIL MOUNTPOINT
sda       ST1000DM010-2EP1          931.5G
├─sda1                                529M
├─sda2                                 99M
├─sda3                                 16M
└─sda4                              930.9G 930.9G   674G  256.9G /media/andrew/F
nvme0n1   Fanxiang S500Pro 1        953.9G
├─nvme0n1p1
│                                     512M   511M   6.1M  504.8M /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2
                                    953.4G 937.3G 820.9G   68.8G /
andrew@ark:~$

I don't think the issue is with Nemo, like I guess the size is showing properly but in the file explorer it shows as 730gb, when I try to LS that folder I get an input output error if that gives any hints

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so, to me it seems like, some things are just inaccessible

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Oh, I might know what's wrong one time I tried to right click and change all permissions to allow me to read write but stopped it early on

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but I don't that that would cause anything of this magnitude

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maybe.?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:05 AM

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crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:05 AM

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Oh yeah, nevermind it shows as 674g in linux, but Trust me, when I open windows it shows as 930 or so used

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and it says it's nearly full, I can show you if you want

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:07 AM

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crisp eagle Oh yeah, nevermind it shows as 674g in linux, but Trust me, when I open windows ...

930 is the total size in GiB

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look at my last pic

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:07 AM

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Yes, but on windows it shows 930, USED, like the bar is literally red and it says like 22gb left

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:07 AM

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well, 931 is total

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the partition is 930

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:07 AM

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well, maybe windows takes 930 as 1000

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you know how sometimes these numbers are weird with gigabytes

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:08 AM

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it's not the units in this case

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:08 AM

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but I can show you on windows, that it is used to that extent, (if you want, I don't mean to bother you by repeating it)

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:09 AM

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what I'm more puzzled by is why it didn't list the fstype, even though you told it to

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run lsblk -f and show a screenshot fitted to the complete result

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:09 AM

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sure

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muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:11 AM

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this is NOT right , as far as I'm concerned

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it's not even showing the 4 columns info for the LINUX drive!

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do u have some disk app open? like gparted?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:12 AM

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Well, I ahve file explorer

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(nemo)

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:12 AM

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no matter that

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should try booting the live usb of mint

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and click the drive volumes in file manager first so all drive volumes mounts then widen a terminal , run lsblk -f again and take pic

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:14 AM

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alrighty

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:15 AM

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crisp eagle

this is rather alarming

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:15 AM

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Why?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:16 AM

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something's not right with it not detecting and displaying the missing 4 columns

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for all drives

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:16 AM

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Well I unplugged the usb if you were asking about that

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But you probably mean something different

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:17 AM

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nothing about usb

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but live boot and show result

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:20 AM

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muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:21 AM

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wrong pic

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:21 AM

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Oh sorry

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:21 AM

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muted vine and click the drive volumes in file manager first so all drive volumes mounts th...

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crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:21 AM

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Okay discord in phone is being weird I have to take the pics outside of discord

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:22 AM

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u can log in on firefox, live

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:24 AM

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I mean I could maybe do that, for discord? (If that's what you're asking)

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:26 AM

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look at sda4 info

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97% used

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:26 AM

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crisp eagle

compared to this

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:27 AM

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That's what I've been saying! For some reason Linux is pretending 200 GB or so doesn't exist

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I'm really confused ;-;

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:28 AM

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and im sure it's related to something of core function. the four colums show up here, in live mode

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:29 AM

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Do you have any idea what's going on, I can zip it for a bit if you want

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:30 AM

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i dont know. u have to rollback timeshift

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or figure out what core changes caused the installed linux to not be able to accurately read

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open Disks app in live

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and take two photos for your record

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one of the hdd

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one of the ssd

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since it shows there a bar graph in blue

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then see in the installed Mint, same observation

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:32 AM

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muted vine then see in the installed Mint, same observation

As in run those same commands?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:32 AM

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just what i last wrote

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:33 AM

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Alright

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:33 AM

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for check Disks app in live usb, and in real

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:34 AM

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Forgive me, you want me to check the disks app and run those commands? Or just the disk apps.

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:34 AM

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open Disks app in live
and take two photos for your record
one of the hdd
one of the ssd
since it shows there a bar graph in blue
then see in the installed Mint, same observation

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:35 AM

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Alright

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:51 AM

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If it matters any this is how it looks like when I shut down with the usb

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muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 12:56 AM

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no matter

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have u got synaptic package manager?

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else check in Software Manager, and look up ntfs

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i think some package ntfs tools.

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it may have updated to a bad version of this tool (compared to what was on the live ISO)

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though that still doesn't explain the 4 missing columns in lsblk -f

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:59 AM

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okay okay

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is there any in particular I should pick

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 1:03 AM

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click Ntfs-3g

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and note its version number

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 1:03 AM

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version is 1:2022.10.3-1.2ubuntu3

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 1:06 AM

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if you want to boot the live USB and do apt list -i ntfs-3g it will show what version the live ISO had installed

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 1:07 AM

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sure

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 1:07 AM

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but yeah some other ppl will have to look into this i think

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 1:08 AM

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Okay, I'll try to see the version, but I think I'll leave this post be for now

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till someone else can come, thank you so much for your patience and help

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 1:29 AM

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Wait, small thing. Would it be a safe reasonable option to boot up the USB, and transfer the files while on the usb? then I can try reformatting the drive to ext4

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 1:47 AM

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crisp eagle Wait, small thing. Would it be a safe reasonable option to boot up the USB, and ...

if you're sure u can fit what you need on the USB, but...

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the USB is also NTFS currently

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if u can blank the usb, make it as exFAT

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copy exactly what you need onto it from the Windows environment....

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once you're absolutely sure your files are legible on the USB , from both Window and Linux, then you can think about deleting the Windows partition (and losing Windows) and changing that to ext4 or BTRFS

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 1:52 AM

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Sorry, as in. I boot up from the live usb then bring the files over, drag and drop. Usb just for live boot

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 2:01 AM

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no. your "backups" USB

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or whatever external drive u got that is large and u can make it into exFAT format

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move what u need there (from Windows)

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while in Windows

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 2:06 AM

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alright

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the usb is 16 gb btw, so I will go to sleep but my idea is. Boot into windows, connect some hard drive ( I don't know here I'll find one but they aren't that expensive last I checked) format it, and transfer those files over

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Or, is it possible that while on the live boot of the USB, I just drag and drop the files between the 2 drives

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well I got to go now, but thank you

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 2:11 AM

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crisp eagle the usb is 16 gb btw, so I will go to sleep but my idea is. Boot into windows, c...

format it to exfat

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 2:11 AM

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crisp eagle Or, is it possible that while on the live boot of the USB, I just drag and drop ...

nope.

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or yes, i guess

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if in live u can see all u need

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but best do it from Windows

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 12:20 PM

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alright, I'll probably do that as a last resort after a while if no one else knows what to do. and again, ty

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 1:46 PM

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@crisp eagle can you see / open required files when booted from usb?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 2:31 PM

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daring cargo <@1041879544447111208> can you see / open required files when booted from usb?

Yes I can view and open them when on live boot but not on installed Linux

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 2:34 PM

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Why not just copy them from the live environment?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 3:14 PM

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I was thinking of that near the end, but I'm still really curious why linux doesn't see some of the files. Well it's whatever but that's what I plan to eventually do

keen cairn Apr 15, 2026, 4:08 PM

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crisp eagle I was thinking of that near the end, but I'm still really curious why linux does...

I do not followed all the discussion, but, what I understood is that part of your NTFS partition is like "invisible" from your installed Linux, but visible from the USB live, right ?

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 4:11 PM

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keen cairn I do not followed all the discussion, but, what I understood is that part of you...

It is fully visible and accessible from live enviroment, but some folders appear empty on installed mint

keen cairn Apr 15, 2026, 4:12 PM

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could it be simply a permission issue ?

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like, what happen if he whatch the drive as root in the installed session ?

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 4:15 PM

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NTFS doesn't support linux permissions. Also free space is different when viewed from live and installed, and lsblk -f doesn't show uuid and filesystem in installed mint

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I wonder if fast startup can mess with it in this way? .... but then it works fine in live

keen cairn Apr 15, 2026, 4:18 PM

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Maybe not properly mounted

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strange...

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maybe by mounting at startup with proper options, maybe it use an alternative ntfs driver...

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 4:24 PM

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muted vine

info. sda4 in question. fstype missing on all

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:01 PM

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daring cargo Why not just copy them from the live environment?

I might, but considering all that has happened, would it be wise to just, reinstall linux?

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or what should I do, (if you have any idea, i dont want to bother)

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:03 PM

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Other than this disk, are there other problems?

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@crisp eagle

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:11 PM

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Well, other else then the disk stuff. not really that I have noticed

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:14 PM

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Ok, where are you now?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:14 PM

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at home

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:15 PM

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I meant in mint or windows?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:15 PM

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Oh, linux mint, it's my main driver (forgot the name)

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I just installed windows on the other drive for, I don't remember why reasons

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i dont really use it

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:16 PM

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Ok, open the terminal and show the output of

lsblk -f

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:17 PM

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➜  ~ sudo lsblk -f
[sudo] password for andrew:
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL    UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1
│    ntfs         Recovery 8CD46517D46504B4
├─sda2
│    vfat   FAT32          1C66-CD47
├─sda3
│
└─sda4
     ntfs                  F0EC68E4EC68A696
nvme0n1

├─nvme0n1p1
│    vfat   FAT32          8C2E-0DC7                             504.8M     1% /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2
     ext4   1.0            51888eb4-832a-447e-ba85-6e8e18cc6524   62.3G    88% /
➜  ~

Oh my gosh I tested using sudo and now it shows uuid

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I didn't know you were supposed to use sudo

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honestly that's on me

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well uuid, fstype and the rest of stuff

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:18 PM

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You shouldn't need to for this command

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:19 PM

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ah, anyways now it shows fstype

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:19 PM

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There should be another column mountpoints on the right

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:19 PM

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atleast

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:19 PM

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daring cargo There should be another column mountpoints on the right

I didn't mount the other drive yet

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(by clicking on it in file explorer)

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I'll get right back to you,

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➜  ~ lsblk -f
NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1
├─sda2
├─sda3
└─sda4                               256.9G    72% /media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696
nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1                          504.8M     1% /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2                           62.3G    88% /
➜  ~

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oops, let me sudo

#

➜  ~ sudo lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL    UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1
│    ntfs         Recovery 8CD46517D46504B4
├─sda2
│    vfat   FAT32          1C66-CD47
├─sda3
│
└─sda4
     ntfs                  F0EC68E4EC68A696                      256.9G    72% /media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696
nvme0n1

├─nvme0n1p1
│    vfat   FAT32          8C2E-0DC7                             504.8M     1% /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2
     ext4   1.0            51888eb4-832a-447e-ba85-6e8e18cc6524   62.3G    88% /
➜  ~

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:20 PM

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Don't rush please

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:20 PM

#

You are right, I realized that I was rushing earlier ;-;

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:21 PM

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Alright, now it's mounted, where are the files you wanted to copy?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:22 PM

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tha'ts interesting. it only shows fsver and fstype and uuid using sudo

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which is not normally the case

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:22 PM

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Well it was an entire big dir, specifically /media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads. it was the only one I had issues with. well moreso specific folders and files in it...

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:23 PM

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run groups <username> (put your own user)

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:23 PM

#

alright

#

I get this back

➜  ~ groups andrew
andrew : andrew adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev users lpadmin sambashare docker
➜  ~

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:23 PM

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i have a feeling you excluded yourself from some vital group

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Imma check my own

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:24 PM

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Looks about the same as my own

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:25 PM

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THIS MIGHT BE RELEVANT, one time I couldn't edit the files and I tried turning a lot of things in there into read/write (right click permission etc in nemo) but I cancelled midway. Should I try chowning or chmoding or whatever?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:25 PM

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i have more groups (didnt explicitly add them myself) suchas netdev, dialout, cdrom, floppy

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oh and scanner

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and lp

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idk what lp is. local printing maybe

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:26 PM

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yeah, lpadmin is for printing

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:27 PM

#

crisp eagle THIS MIGHT BE RELEVANT, one time I couldn't edit the files and I tried turning a...

no, u go into the "Users and Groups" settings module in SETTINGS

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and add the scanner group

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:27 PM

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if it might be relevant some files have like half of their data missing, there are some videos where it stutters and then skips to like a timestamp ahead, nomatter the player. But okay let me try what you say

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:27 PM

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to your account 'andrew'

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lp dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev users netdev lpadmin vboxsf scanner sambashare

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those are my included groups (plus my own user group name)

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:28 PM

#

crisp eagle THIS MIGHT BE RELEVANT, one time I couldn't edit the files and I tried turning a...

That might be relevant, depending on what exactly he did

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:29 PM

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sorry, so I select scanner in the list, I press add then it asks for a group name, should I put the name of the group?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:29 PM

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select your user id

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and modify

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and then add certain groups

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or vice versa, select a particular group (like netdev or scanner) and tick your user account for it

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:30 PM

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I think I found hte button

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I have to click on the groups button, not the groups tab.

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okay I added scanner, should I reboot?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:31 PM

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not yet

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:31 PM

#

muted vine > `lp dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev users netdev lpadmin vbo...

add any here which you do not have currently, and leave the ones you do have

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:31 PM

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alright

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:33 PM

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i don't think a full reboot is needed, but perhaps a log-out

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:38 PM

#

I don't see vboxsf but now I got this

➜  ~ groups andrew
andrew : andrew adm lp dialout voice cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev users lpadmin netdev scanner sambashare docker
➜  ~
``` I'll log out now. also at one point I pressed scanner in group, then typed in add, then typed in scanner, I don't know if it would have overwrited it

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Yea i logged out, even rebooted

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but I still see 200gb or so missing

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or at least, invisible

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:42 PM

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One thing at a time. Where are the files you wanted to copy?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:44 PM

#

I wanted to copy EVERYTHING under

/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads
``` if you are asking about any specific folder that has had issues then

/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:45 PM

#

What does

ls /media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/

say?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:47 PM

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you can use tab key to autofill btw

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:47 PM

#

andrew@ark:~$ ls /media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/
'2025-10-02 18-00-33.mp4'  '2026-01-25 13-01-14.mp4'
'2025-10-02 20-27-12.mp4'  '2026-01-25 13-10-14.mp4'
'2025-10-13 13-46-44.mp4'  '2026-02-01 21-23-21.mp4'
'2025-10-13 17-51-35.mp4'  '2026-02-02 19-10-56.mp4'
'2025-11-11 20-07-46.mp3'  '2026-02-02 19-30-51.mp4'
'2025-12-19 16-24-35.mp4'  '2026-02-02 19-43-50.mp4'
'2025-12-19 16-25-46.mp4'  '2026-02-04 21-28-25.mp4'
'2025-12-19 17-09-35.mp4'  '2026-02-05 17-04-30.mp4'
'2025-12-19 17-28-14.mp4'  '2026-02-05 17-10-37.mp4'
'2025-12-20 18-13-12.mp4'  '2026-02-13 18-49-02.mp4'
'2025-12-25 10-16-44.mp4'  '2026-02-14 19-24-30.mp4'
'2025-12-25 10-17-49.mp4'  '2026-02-14 21-45-02.mp4'
'2025-12-25 10-18-55.mp4'  '2026-02-14 21-48-19.mkv'
'2025-12-25 10-19-57.mp4'  '2026-02-14 21-48-19.mp4'
'2025-12-25 10-20-36.mp4'  '2026-02-14 22-12-32.mkv'
'2025-12-25 10-21-24.mp4'  '2026-02-14 22-12-32.mp4'
``` I'd have to break it up into 2 parts

#

'2025-12-25 10-22-00.mp4'  '2026-02-17 19-31-07.mkv'
'2025-12-25 10-22-28.mp4'  '2026-02-17 19-31-07.mp4'
'2025-12-25 10-35-10.mp4'  '2026-02-25 20-11-37.mkv'
'2025-12-25 10-36-36.mp4'  '2026-02-25 20-11-37.mp4'
'2025-12-25 10-40-34.mp4'  '2026-02-25 20-12-34.mkv'
'2025-12-25 10-40-57.mp4'  '2026-02-25 20-12-34.mp4'
'2025-12-25 16-59-01.mp4'  '2026-02-25 20-53-11.mkv'
'2025-12-25 17-00-22.mp4'  '2026-02-25 20-53-11.mp4'
'2025-12-26 21-03-18.mp4'  '2026-02-25 20-56-41.mkv'
'2025-12-26 21-09-05.mp4'  '2026-02-25 20-56-41.mp4'
'2025-12-26 21-19-43.mp4'  '2026-02-25 21-15-46.mkv'
'2026-01-05 17-29-03.mp4'  '2026-02-25 21-15-46.mp4'
'2026-01-05 17-32-27.mp4'  '24fps compound clip in 60fps timeline.mov'
'2026-01-05 17-33-59.mp4'  'broken discord gif.mp4'
'2026-01-05 17-34-30.mp4'   CathedraliteDomes_0.pdf
'2026-01-05 17-35-19.mp4'   desktop.ini
'2026-01-06 19-12-57.mp4'   Dwarf_Fortress_Revisoned
'2026-01-10 17-39-29.mp4'   FINALL.mov
'2026-01-13 20-16-35.mp4'   FIN.mov
'2026-01-14 20-00-22.mp4'  'Images videos and memes overlays sound'
'2026-01-14 20-00-34.mp4'  'interactive media'
'2026-01-14 20-00-44.mp4'   Krisp_Installer.exe
'2026-01-14 20-01-22.mp4'   media
'2026-01-14 20-02-10.mp4'  'plutonium intro.mp4'
'2026-01-17 21-48-32.mp4'   plutonium.mp4
'2026-01-22 10-01-41.mp4'  'random russian discord bs.mp4'
'2026-01-22 10-03-29.mp4'   raoms2review.mov
'2026-01-22 10-12-39.mp4'   Recordings
'2026-01-22 10-31-18.mp4'  'Resolve Projects'
'2026-01-25 12-42-11.mp4'  'ROBLOX GAME DEV'
'2026-01-25 12-45-35.mp4'  'samsung a05'
'2026-01-25 12-59-16.mp4'  'temp media'
andrew@ark:~$

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:47 PM

#

can u hit the up arrow ONE TIME

#

in terminal

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:48 PM

#

Ok, and

ls "/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound"

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:48 PM

#

and arrow over to the ls part

#

and change it to cd and hit enter

#

what folder you logged to rn?

#

name the last one in the string

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:49 PM

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Okay, Well give me a bit. For stunner I have chaned to the directory. the one you just told me to cd into, but Downloads

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:49 PM

#

pwd

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:49 PM

#

In regards to what maniak asked,

andrew@ark:/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads$ ls "/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound"
ls: reading directory '/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound': Input/output error
andrew@ark:/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads$

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:49 PM

#

and state please

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:50 PM

#

Of course, let me do that now

pwd
/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:50 PM

#

ok i see it ur in downloads

#

let's try one more way here:

#

do ls -la --group-directories-first

#

from where u are now (downloads)

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:51 PM

#

Would you prefer me to break the message up or send it as a txt

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:51 PM

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maximize terminal, and take screenshot with screenshot tool

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:51 PM

#

Huh... can't read that specific folder

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:51 PM

#

muted vine maximize terminal, and take screenshot with screenshot tool

Alright

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:52 PM

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i want to see perms on EVERYTHING within ./Downloads

#

and i noticed the i/o error too,

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:53 PM

#

As for me, what does

sudo ls "/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound"

say?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:53 PM

#

Okay, just tell me if you want me to send plain text instead. Oh yes and the i/o error thats been there for a while, I mentioned it once or twice. it happened during using meld, diff and other stuff. Okay maniak i'll get right to you

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:54 PM

#

daring cargo As for me, what does sudo ls "/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downl...

andrew@ark:/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads$ sudo ls "/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound"
[sudo] password for andrew:
ls: reading directory '/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound': Input/output error
andrew@ark:/media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696/Users/cples/Downloads$

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:54 PM

#

crisp eagle Okay, just tell me if you want me to send plain text instead. Oh yes and the i/o...

please be in Downloads

#

and hit the up arrow once or twice to repeat the same command i had said, but put sudo in front

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:55 PM

#

muted vine do `ls -la --group-directories-first`

this , prepended with sudo

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 9:55 PM

#

I don't think it's a permission error

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:55 PM

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since for some nutty reason, no perms show, (but then again this is ntfs)

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:56 PM

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muted vine since for some nutty reason, no perms show, (but then again this is ntfs)

got it

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:56 PM

#

wait i was so blind lol

#

it had the perms earlier my browser tab was scrolled right

#

look at the size

#

folders are supposed to be 4KB arent they?

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without scanning capacity within them

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 9:58 PM

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maybe that specific command showed the real size when other things couldnt? but I don't know

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 9:59 PM

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for example, see the folder "Dwarf fortress" there?

#

4096 bytes (4 KiB)

#

can u enter that folder in file manager?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:00 PM

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Yes

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:00 PM

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hit the up arrow button in nemo toolbar

#

right click > properties on the Dwarf folder

#

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:02 PM

#

The dwarf folder also had i/o errors, well a build sub folder but yea

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:03 PM

#

see in Properties, it shows the total capacity of data bytes contained WITHIN

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:03 PM

#

muted vine

and here it shows size 4 KiB (4096 bytes)

#

which is correct

#

but all the other folders seem crazy af

#

they should all register 4 KiB there

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:05 PM

#

Folders can be big in size if there are lots of stuff inside

ls -lah /mnt/sdb1/Games/
итого 356K
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8,0K апр 6 16:23 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K мар 31 14:21 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K ноя 22 2024 'Black Souls'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K ноя 22 2024 'Black Souls II'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8,0K ноя 22 2024 Evenicle2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K ноя 22 2024 'Gore Screaming Show'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 ноя 22 2024 GzDoom
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K янв 25 2025 'Holy Knight Ricca'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K ноя 22 2024 'Laxius Power TRILOGY'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 244K апр 6 16:27 'Lufia V For The Savior - 1.3'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K ноя 22 2024 'Maggot Baits'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 ноя 22 2024 'Nais Training Diary'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K ноя 22 2024 'Overwhored Ver 1.1'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 ноя 7 23:07 Ps2
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 дек 30 23:17 Psp
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K ноя 22 2024 'Shyguy surfing'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K янв 27 18:29 Snes
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40K мар 13 14:53 Switch
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8,0K ноя 22 2024 'Teaching Feeling v4.06'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K ноя 22 2024 Voice.of.Cards.The.Beasts.of.Burden
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4,0K ноя 22 2024 Voice.of.Cards.The.Forsaken.Maiden

from my system

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:06 PM

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that's how mine look (even tho there's big stuff in those blue/purple things, not count the dots)

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:06 PM

#

daring cargo Folders can be big in size if there are lots of stuff inside ls -lah /mnt/s...

your show all 4 K as well

#

well, except about 3

#

that show 8 K

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:07 PM

#

Look closer at the switch and lufia V

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:07 PM

#

and one 244K

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:08 PM

#

crisp eagle Okay, just tell me if you want me to send plain text instead. Oh yes and the i/o...

can you rerun this plz but put an h as part of the flags ( -lah )

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:08 PM

#

Alright

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:09 PM

#

I think we should unmount sda4 from /media run ntfsfix on sda4 and mount it somewhere in /mnt see if that changes anything

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:09 PM

#

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:10 PM

#

#

yeah run up the Disks app andrew

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find sda4

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and click the stop button

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:11 PM

#

alright

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:11 PM

#

You can just do it from the terminal

#

will see results better

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:11 PM

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yes the mounting part to dedicated folder, do in terminal

#

ls /mnt

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if it's empty, then

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:12 PM

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okay let me stop it

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:12 PM

#

sudo mount /dev/sda4 /mnt

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:13 PM

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Okay it says it's busy when I try to unmount it, let me unbusy it by closing some apps

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:13 PM

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no, need to do

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda4

before that

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:13 PM

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I am getting target is busy, I am going to reboot

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:14 PM

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... before mount that is

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:14 PM

#

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:14 PM

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may as well reboot but careful

#

if ur copying data, dont reboot yet

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:14 PM

#

crisp eagle I am getting target is busy, I am going to reboot

close the nemo

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:14 PM

#

I already di that

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:14 PM

#

maniak check this out :

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:15 PM

#

then in the terminal type

cd ~

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:15 PM

#

6 Mebibytes for a folder inode???

#

and that's the one with trouble

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:15 PM

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muted vine 6 Mebibytes for a folder inode???

Maybe he has hundreds of fiolders in there

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:16 PM

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No, it was like 13000 media things but only a few folders if I remember

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:16 PM

#

still a lot of stuff

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:17 PM

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okay, I unmounted it and I wll run the ntfs fix command, right?

#

No, how would I even do that if it was unmounted

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:17 PM

#

yes

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda4

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:18 PM

#

Oh, well I got this while it was unmounted

andrew@ark:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda4
[sudo] password for andrew:
Mounting volume... The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sda4 was processed successfully.
andrew@ark:~$

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:19 PM

#

mkay

#

do sudo mount /dev/sda4 /mnt

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:19 PM

#

re run it again, to be sure though

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:19 PM

#

then go into /mnt in nemo to see if u can get into all folders

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:19 PM

#

Oh okay,

andrew@ark:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda4
[sudo] password for andrew:
Mounting volume... The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sda4 was processed successfully.
andrew@ark:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda4
Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sda4 was processed successfully.
andrew@ark:~$
``` ( these are the 2 times I ran it, ) okay let me do what stunner asked now

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:20 PM

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btw maniak, we had run chkdsk /f on this partition yesterday from windows

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:21 PM

#

andrew@ark:~$ ls "/mnt/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound"
ls: reading directory '/mnt/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlays sound': Input/output error
andrew@ark:~$

yea, doesn't show in nemo either :/

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:21 PM

#

muted vine btw maniak, we had run chkdsk /f on this partition yesterday from windows

Yeah, from the way how @crisp eagle wrote about it I think he rebooted it before it was finished

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:21 PM

#

but it's nice to see this did something

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:21 PM

#

daring cargo Yeah, from the way how <@1041879544447111208> wrote about it I think he reboo...

Nononoono, it went to like step 4 100 percent then it rebooted on its own

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:23 PM

#

crisp eagle ``` andrew@ark:~$ ls "/mnt/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlay...

huh.... that didn't help it seems

#

.... but in live session it is read fine

#

strange

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:23 PM

#

and in Windows

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:24 PM

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crisp eagle ``` andrew@ark:~$ ls "/mnt/Users/cples/Downloads/Images videos and memes overlay...

cd to this path

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:25 PM

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@crisp eagle what does

mount | grep mnt

say?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:25 PM

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to Downloads i mean
then run ls -lah --group-directories-first

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:26 PM

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daring cargo <@1041879544447111208> what does mount | grep mnt say?

andrew@ark:/mnt/Users/cples/Downloads$ mount | grep mnt
/dev/sda4 on /mnt type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
andrew@ark:/mnt/Users/cples/Downloads$

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:27 PM

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daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:27 PM

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and

sudo apt update && apt policy ntfs-3g

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:27 PM

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still same i think

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:28 PM

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daring cargo and sudo apt update && apt policy ntfs-3g

okay let me do that

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:28 PM

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muted vine

old reference

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:29 PM

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well it tells me

ntfs-3g:
  Installed: 1:2022.10.3-1.2ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:2022.10.3-1.2ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:2022.10.3-1.2ubuntu3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
andrew@ark:/mnt/Users/cples/Downloads$

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:30 PM

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@muted vine Do you think windows' fast startup messes with it?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:30 PM

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i think i had him turn it off

daring cargo Apr 15, 2026, 10:32 PM

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@crisp eagle Is that the only folder that doesn't show?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:32 PM

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daring cargo <@1041879544447111208> Is that the only folder that doesn't show?

there are several other folders with I/O errors

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and some videos that have sections non existent

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it's like as I said, linux pretends that 200gb dosen't exist

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:34 PM

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try sudo df -h

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and show result

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specifically as root

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:35 PM

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andrew@ark:/$ sudo df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           3.1G  4.0M  3.1G   1% /run
efivarfs        128K  123K   511 100% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p2  938G  826G   65G  93% /
tmpfs            16G   28M   16G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M   16K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M  6.2M  505M   2% /boot/efi
overlay         938G  826G   65G  93% /var/lib/docker/rootfs/overlayfs/e08e012e56263e6214fc81a050186266a6f251ad9ed7625816d2971ebf696b13
overlay         938G  826G   65G  93% /var/lib/docker/rootfs/overlayfs/6a361f3b067045c54840da5f1fef3648d111d89feffa16714158230ac904eaad
overlay         938G  826G   65G  93% /var/lib/docker/rootfs/overlayfs/86660ef078a989e8c78e4ae5a05999447c960ebf08be177bc558a091aeec41b2
overlay         938G  826G   65G  93% /var/lib/docker/rootfs/overlayfs/3a4489a12f8549b93aa8ba28bc492aa945fe892d5dc3803cbd7742783e48152e
overlay         938G  826G   65G  93% /var/lib/docker/rootfs/overlayfs/1123b4fe518fd15e8609e40c23741e89d7f7f49d886bd461b5c94369fb96a3d1
tmpfs           3.1G  121M  3.0G   4% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda4       931G  674G  257G  73% /mnt
andrew@ark:/$
``` Also is it safe to have it mounted, I don't want anything on it to acidentally be overwritten

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:35 PM

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yes it's the same as clicking it

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except it's in /mnt

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:35 PM

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Well when I click it and I right click on files they are uneditable

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but when I mount this way i can right click them and edit them

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so would it be okay to unmount it?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:36 PM

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i dont suppose docker is causing this?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:36 PM

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dont know why it would

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:36 PM

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wait up

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crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:37 PM

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ohsiet

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:38 PM

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still shows 257 gigs as available

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even tho in windows, or live mint it was 20ish gigs or 50?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:38 PM

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Should I unmount now? i really dont want anything to be overwritten. sorry just being cautious

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:39 PM

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sure

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can click stop in Disks for it

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did u install winboat by chance?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:40 PM

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i did

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:40 PM

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go to startup applications in settings

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turn off any autostart toggle related to docker or winboat

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then reboot

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:41 PM

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well, docker nor winboat show up in there so I have to systemctl or systemd stome stuff

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:41 PM

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ok

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well do that then if that's how u had set it to autostart

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i have a hunch maybe its affecting the ntfs

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in live mode, was not

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:44 PM

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crisp eagle version is 1:2022.10.3-1.2ubuntu3

reference for installed ntfs-3g version

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:44 PM

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okay ima reboot now

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:45 PM

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crisp eagle

reference, in live mode (white DISKS app) 29 metric gigs free

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:46 PM

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crisp eagle I mean I could maybe do that, for discord? (If that's what you're asking)

27 binary gigs FSAVAIL, in live mint

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:46 PM

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andrew@ark:~$ sudo df -h
[sudo] password for andrew:
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           3.1G  2.4M  3.1G   1% /run
efivarfs        128K  126K     0 100% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p2  938G  826G   65G  93% /
tmpfs            16G   12K   16G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M   20K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M  6.2M  505M   2% /boot/efi
tmpfs           3.1G  188K  3.1G   1% /run/user/1000
andrew@ark:~$ cd /
andrew@ark:/$ sudo df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           3.1G  2.4M  3.1G   1% /run
efivarfs        128K  126K     0 100% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p2  938G  826G   65G  93% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M   20K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M  6.2M  505M   2% /boot/efi
tmpfs           3.1G  188K  3.1G   1% /run/user/1000
andrew@ark:/$ sudo df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           3.1G  2.3M  3.1G   1% /run
efivarfs        128K  126K     0 100% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p2  938G  826G   65G  93% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M   20K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M  6.2M  505M   2% /boot/efi
tmpfs           3.1G  188K  3.1G   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda4       931G  674G  257G  73% /media/andrew/F0EC68E4EC68A696
``` *before and after mounting

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i dont think docker is related

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:47 PM

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why u ran it 3 times?

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oh sda4

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:47 PM

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oh, I meant 2. To show the befoer and after

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:48 PM

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257 GiB FSAVAIL

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boot live and check the ntfs-3g version

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:49 PM

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Oh, didn't I tell you what it was last time

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:49 PM

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no

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:49 PM

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it was the same as installed linux but I can check again

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:49 PM

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ya check again

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:49 PM

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k

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:50 PM

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you might as well copy stuff from live

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then just reformat the whole sda to BTRFS or ext4

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 10:50 PM

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k

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really weird what linux was doing :d

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would it be okay to transfer the files on windows then format when on linux
i think that would be safer

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 10:53 PM

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yes

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that had been my first suggestion

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 11:00 PM

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Wait can windows properly deal with ext

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 11:02 PM

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no

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how big is your nvme?

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 11:03 PM

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1tb

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 11:03 PM

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or if you have an external good hard drive, use that. ensure it's in exFAT format

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 11:05 PM

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I don't have an external drive with that size
So would it be okay to use live boot here

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 11:05 PM

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no

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do u have the external hdd ???

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wait

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 11:06 PM

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I have the one im using I think I have a few random old ones here and there

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 11:06 PM

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see your nvme is already 92% full or so

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 11:06 PM

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No it's fine

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It's when I transferred that big downloads folder

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I can delete it from it's end

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 11:07 PM

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crisp eagle ``` andrew@ark:~$ sudo df -h [sudo] password for andrew: Filesystem Size U...

93 percent, according to this

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so do it from live mint

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 11:07 PM

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Okay live mint I delete doenloads from nvme and bring over the one from hdd

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Sound good?

muted vine Apr 15, 2026, 11:12 PM

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delete what u dont want on the nvme , sure

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and put exactly what gives trouble on the NTFS seagate onto the nvme

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plus anything else

crisp eagle Apr 15, 2026, 11:14 PM

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I will delete the whole folder probably since there are like 20000 different weird things that went wrong. Anyways tysm

crisp eagle Apr 16, 2026, 2:48 PM

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muted vine then just reformat the whole sda to BTRFS or ext4

which one would be better for just holding files?

muted vine Apr 16, 2026, 4:16 PM

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crisp eagle which one would be better for just holding files?

BTRFS if you need some amount of cross-compatibility with Windows (a BTRFS windows driver exists and works well I hear)

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EXT4 if you don't need that, but I will recommend to tune the filesystem after.

crisp eagle Apr 16, 2026, 4:26 PM

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Okay, everything is okay now I guess, but (just if you know) since I'm curious do you maybe know what caused this whole issue?

muted vine Apr 16, 2026, 4:31 PM

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nope

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did you reformat?

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@crisp eagle

crisp eagle Apr 16, 2026, 4:31 PM

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yes I did

muted vine Apr 16, 2026, 4:31 PM

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the whole drive, or just one partition?

crisp eagle Apr 16, 2026, 4:32 PM

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sda4

muted vine Apr 16, 2026, 4:32 PM

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oh

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what filesystem u pick?

crisp eagle Apr 16, 2026, 4:32 PM

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ext4

muted vine Apr 16, 2026, 4:32 PM

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did u take ownership of it?

crisp eagle Apr 16, 2026, 4:32 PM

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I, don't think I did?

muted vine Apr 16, 2026, 4:32 PM

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(unless you did it from Disks app, then you already have ownership)

crisp eagle Apr 16, 2026, 4:33 PM

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ah I did it via terminal, okay I mean I can redo it via disks app

muted vine Apr 16, 2026, 4:33 PM

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no need to redo

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but u can use the Disks app to take ownership of sda4

crisp eagle Apr 16, 2026, 4:33 PM

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yea I just realized lol

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okay well, thank you so much for all the help. and the other people, I'll mark this as solved :)

muted vine Apr 16, 2026, 4:34 PM

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crisp eagle okay well, thank you so much for all the help. and the other people, I'll mark t...

one last thing you should check out

crisp eagle Apr 16, 2026, 4:34 PM

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ooh

muted vine Apr 16, 2026, 4:35 PM

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https://youtu.be/yYZUnx9yZKE?t=1106 (18:26) Tune ext4 filesystems space (JOE COLLINS)

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since this is data drive, set to 0

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https://youtu.be/AeR8Rk5LwWU?t=774 (12:54) Set up hdd auto-mounts in fstab. (JOE COLLINS)

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^ also an informative watch.

#How to transfer big files from a windows 10 NTFS drive to a linux drive