NTFS Copy Results in 0b Files

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Hello. I’m a newbie user of Endeavour. But have used Linux for quite awhile
I have a dual boot installation of Windows 10 and Endeavour with third partition (NTFS) as shared storage for both Windows and Endeavour

Recently, I’m experiencing weird issue. Whenever I try to copy a file (let’s say, an ISO file or zipped folder) to the shared storage, the resulting file is 0b. So I can’t do anything with the copied files

This also happens when I copy a file in that shared storage from a folder to other locations in that shared storage

This doesn’t happen in Windows 10. And copying works normal

Before, I experienced this with Manjaro Linux months ago. That’s why I decided to jump ship to Endeavour. But after a while, turns out this issue also appears in Endeavour

My system is up to date. Last update was last night

I found a link about this exact same issue in Unix Stackexchange from March. But unfortunately it has no reply

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Not that it solves your NTFS problem, but I have always used fat32 partitions for sharing between Windows and Linux because its much less prone to problems.

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Make sure you have disabled “Fast startup” in Windows. Otherwise the disks will be marked dirty and disk behavior will be inconsistent.

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It’s already done long ago. I disabled hibernation as well. GParted reported something about $MFT stuff, but I didn’t get to copy the exact report. Gonna look at that later and post complete report

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It’s really weird. I did this exact combo for years now. But just recently got this issue

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Bumping up

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I have never trusted NTFS for anything, even under Windows. The early days of NT 3.51 and 4.0 left a very bad impression and I had stuck with fat32 since the late 90’s. :rofl:

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Update:

I tried to copy a small zip file (under 3MB). Thunar and Dolphin still report 0b. Then I rebooted and enter Windows. The file is fine and can be extracted

Boot back to Endeavour and yes, the file size reported correctly this time

I wonder if this is a bug

Cz I extracted a different zip file containing a video under Endeavour and couldn’t get it to play. Too bad I deleted the said zip file so I can’t replicate the experiment

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Update:

I’m tired
Decided to wipe the partition and change it to ExFAT

Consider this solved

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For future reference - you could have tried ntfs3 kernel driver

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I was researching about it few days ago, after the convert. But I read that there’s still some hurdles with Paragon Software. So I hesitated to install it. Thanks anyway! Might take it into consideration when I upgrade my machine

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