ntfs Questions
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We're building a Windows-based application that traverses a directory structure recursively, looking for files that meet certain criteria and then doing some processing on them. In order to decide ...
Eratosthenes asked 14/4, 2011 at 13:11
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There is a function to set the "valid data length" value: SetFileValidData, but I didn't find a way to get the "valid data length" value.
I want to know about given file if the EOF is different fr...
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I want to compress a folder using NTFS compression in .NET. I found this post, but it does not work. It throws an exception ("Invalid Parameter").
DirectoryInfo directoryInfo = new DirectoryInfo( ...
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I would like to know what do I have to do if I want to mount automatically my NTFS filesystem when Ubuntu 10 starts. Now I have to do it manually everytime it starts.
Thanks
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I thought extended file attributes existed in NTFS which Windows supports. I cannot find a cmd for accessing/updating attributes.
Is there a flavor of Windows (and its file system) that supports t...
Christner asked 27/9, 2017 at 22:48
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Coming from a .Net development background with not that much experience in (NTFS) file system security most of the rights in System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemRights are pretty clear to me.
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Febrile asked 22/2, 2016 at 7:53
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In general, Robocopy ignores files for which lastwrittendate and filesize are the same. How can we escape this design? I'd like to force overwriting with Robocopy.
I expected that dst\sample.txt s...
Mellen asked 22/11, 2016 at 14:22
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when I git clone the repository the following warning appears:
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warning: the following paths have collided (e.g. case-sensitive paths
on a case-insensitive filesystem) and only one from the same...
Spragens asked 18/8, 2020 at 12:13
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I have a script in PHP that reads several files and I run it on Windows 10. When I run it for the first time, it works slowly (tens of seconds) and next times, it works quickly (less than a second)...
Pyle asked 5/5, 2023 at 19:22
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How does Windows with NTFS perform with large volumes of files and directories?
Is there any guidance around limits of files or directories you can place in a single directory before you run into ...
Flabellum asked 13/10, 2008 at 10:1
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When cloning a git repository that contains case-sensitive file paths (e.g. /README.md and /readme.md) on a case-insensitive file system (like NTFS or APFS), git will only check out one of the coll...
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Is there a simple way to check in Python if a file system is case insensitive? I'm thinking in particular of file systems like HFS+ (OSX) and NTFS (Windows), where you can access the same file as f...
Sialagogue asked 23/10, 2011 at 23:29
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How can I test in PowerShell code if a folder is a junction point?
Endomorphic asked 22/2, 2010 at 13:28
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Obviously not every action on a file or folder will immediately update its LastAccessTime since that just means that checking what is its LastAccessTime will always return the current time.
But wha...
Lanugo asked 17/11, 2022 at 20:51
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I'm designing a database table which will hold filenames of uploaded files. What is the maximum length of a filename in NTFS as used by Windows XP or Vista?
Pacifism asked 5/11, 2008 at 16:39
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This question shows that cygwin’s soft links are somewhat different from ntfs junctions. I’d like cygwin to create a real junction. I thought about running mklink but, hell, there is no mklink.exe....
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I am writing some code to parse through the MFT on disk in NTFS volumes. This is straightforward, but one particular corner case caught my eye, and I can't find a clear answer anywhere on the inter...
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In .NET, I think I can determine if a file is a symbolic link by calling System.IO.File.GetAttributes(), and checking for the ReparsePoint bit. like so:
var a = System.IO.File.GetAttributes(fileN...
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I want to be able to use mklink to create symbolic links on my Windows Vista Home edition computer.
However, I must grant SeCreateSymbolicLink before mklink will be able to function on Vista Home ...
Ruthful asked 2/5, 2009 at 19:43
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Which built in (if any) tool can I use to determine the allocation unit size of a certain NTFS partition ?
Tibiotarsus asked 17/9, 2008 at 8:50
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I'm trying to create an NTFS Junction. From the cmd line I can do this using the junction.exe tool from sysinternals. The output of a DIR cmd for a junction looks like this:
Volume in drive C ha...
Michellemichels asked 9/9, 2009 at 15:56
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There is a software called "Everything" it indexes all the files in your machine, and find anything very fast; once the files are indexed.
I would expect the index phase to take few minut...
Crashing asked 16/5, 2021 at 7:37
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We have complaints "from the field" (i.e. from sysadmins installing software) that cygwin "messes up" windows permissions on NTFS (Windows 7/10/2008/2012, etc).
Problem Usecase
The general usecas...
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I noticed that access rights in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps for Users have a special "condition" applied: EXISTS WIN://SYSAPPID.
I didn't find anything about ACL conditions or how I cou...
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I'm trying to read the NTFS Change Journal but I've noticed that all the example code I can find fails on Windows 10, even though it works on Windows 7.
For example, Microsofts own example Walking...
Bessette asked 27/10, 2017 at 15:33
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