As described here, using SetFileInformationByHandle with FILE_DISPOSITION_INFO allows one to set a file with an open handle to be deleted upon all handles being closed. However, I am trying to del...

This is a duplicated post since I didn't get any help on askubuntu.com. I have a 1TB external hard drive that I recently formatted to NTFS. It was mounting on my Ubuntu 11.10 fine until just now. ...

I have got plenty of Windows SDKs installed with Visual Studio. The two directories Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs and Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits take a lot of space (approx. 2 GB). Can I...

I have a problem when installing npm modules. NodeJS is installed on Ubuntu 11.10 running on Virtual Box on Windows host. My project files are on NTFS partition (I have to share them with windows)....

When sequentially overwriting (in e.g. 8192 bytes aligned and sized blocks) in existing parts of a file (sometimes/always?) WriteFile causes file reads from disk, which totally trashes performance....

I've written an application that examines all of the file system permissions on a directory. A directory has a number of access rules (of type FileSystemAccessRule). Each access rule has a proper...

I'm testing a sparse file. But my test code doesn't work well. HANDLE h = CreateFileW(L"D:\\sparse.test", GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE|FILE_SHARE_DELETE, 0, CRE...

I'm trying to have my Java application read all the data in a given path. So files, directories, metadata etc. This also includes one weird thing NTFS has called Alternate Data Stream (ADS). Appar...

How can I use batch to determine if a computer is using FAT32 or NTFS and is this even possible.

I am using NTFS partition on linux machine. I want to identify hidden files and folders on my NTFS partition on linux using python. How can I achieve this using python. Any code snippet / links wo...

Application Description I have an offline data processing tool. This tool loads hundreds of thousands of files. For each one it performs some calculations and when done writes a single index file....

NTFS files can have object ids. These ids can be set using FSCTL_SET_OBJECT_ID. However, the msdn article says: Modifying an object identifier can result in the loss of data from portions of a f...

I am writing a program that should process many small files, say thousands or even millions. I've been testing that part on 500k files, and the first step was just to iterate a directory which has ...

I'm just getting started on some programming to handle filenames with non-english names on a WinXP system. I've done some recommended reading on unicode and I think I get the basic idea, but some p...

since Windows Vista there is an new Win32-API call CreateSymbolicLink to create a symbolic link on the NTFS filesystem. Does anyone know if there is an way to list all existing symbolic links on t...

I'm trying to apply NTFS permissions that are defined in the 'Advanced' tab of the Windows security settings. One ACL $Rule is for This folder only and another one is for the Subfolders and files o...

Can anyone recommend a tool for MFT cleanup? I want to in my MFT restore the entries for files which once existed but have been deleted to a "pristine" state, with zeroed out entries.

I have written a backup tool that is able to backup files and images of volumes for Windows. To detect which files have changed I use the Windows Change Journal. I already use the shadow copy funct...

From articles I have found online there appears to be two forms of unique identifiers for files on NTFS: Using Windows API GetFileInformationByHandle(), we can get access to the struct BY_HANDLE_F...

I found there are some files on my disk, which 1) the real size is not zero, but it is small, around 500 bytes 2) the "size on disk" shows zero when you check its properties 3) if I make the file s...

I'm using the following code to obtain information about a file system directory: LPCTSTR pStrPath = L"D:\\1"; WIN32_FIND_DATA wfd; HANDLE hDummy = ::FindFirstFile(pStrPath, &wfd); if(hDummy !...

I am trying to write a command line tool that will give IIS7.5 on windows server 2008 write access to a folder in the wwwroot, so that a web application has access to write to a specific folder wit...

I need to read and modify the 'Compressed' attribute of a file on an NTFS partition from Java. I imagined something in the java.nio.file.attribute package would do it -- hell it's a complex enough ...

Is the ReplaceFile Windows API a convenience function only, or does it achieve anything beyond what could be coded using multiple calls to MoveFileEx? I'm currently in the situation where I need t...

I want to use Vagrant but not pollute my machine which I'm working on with n+ VirtualBox machines. I searched the web but found nothing. What I really want is working on my Laptop and invoking vag...