I just bought "Microsoft NTFS for Linux by Paragon Software" I have a question
from Web_Rand@moist.catsweat.com to linux@lemmy.ml on 22 Jun 17:47
https://moist.catsweat.com/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/1423812

I bought Microsoft NTFS for Linux by Paragon Software for a linux version of chkdsk. It also includes "ufsd" a somewhat redundant driver for reading and writing ntfs. (I already had ntfs-3g) What are the differences between ufsd and ntfs-3g?

#driver #linux #ntfs #ntfs-3g #ubuntu #ufsd

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anon5621@lemmy.ml on 22 Jun 18:33 next collapse

I wonder even what’s point of buying it? And isn’t NTFS 3g is open source version created by community by reverse engineering ntfs

EDIT: if anyone need paragon tools for checking NTFS I can share them easily I extracted them from their apk which they were selling on Google play and there tools for almost any architecture x86,MIPS,arm

that_leaflet@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 18:45 next collapse

Paragon’s NTFS driver was also upstreamed in the kernel in like 5.15.

MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml on 22 Jun 18:52 collapse

a linux version of chkdsk

Maybe so they can check their NTFS drives without rebooting to Windows. If it checks Linux file systems, we have fsck for that.

krolden@lemmy.ml on 22 Jun 19:22 next collapse

just do it in kvm

Web_Rand@moist.catsweat.com on 23 Jun 00:12 next collapse

Correct

DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 01:49 collapse

I do this literally every single day from my Linux machine with no issues. In fact, right before i came to lemmy, I transferred a 120GB game folder from my windows drive to my Linux one.

Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jun 18:44 next collapse

Windows users used to buy crap to have a functioning system unfortunately dont’t know that there is no need for this in linuxland

ozymandias117@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 19:30 next collapse

I’m surprised at using ntfs-3g these days, but one major difference is that ntfs-3g uses FUSE in userspace.

Paragon has an in-kernel driver that is much faster, although I would expect your distro already includes it.

You can check with something like cat /boot/config-* | grep NTFS3_FS

axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 22 Jun 19:49 next collapse

I legit thought I had stumbled into a shittysysadmin thread for a moment.

DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 01:46 collapse

I dual boot and and I have 4TB HDD that is also formatted to NTFS. I can access both from my Linux system, and move files between the two, with ntfs-3g all the time. I even have them both automount on boot and have never had an issue.

Until this post, I’ve always thought this paragon software was to be used on Windows to access the Linux ext4/btrsf… Etc drives!