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NTFS seems really sensitive? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by throwaway_t56@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Hi, I've been running a Ubuntu on Mac Mini homelab for past couple of weeks (Jellyfin, Transmission, SMB), and I keep hitting NTFS issues - some of which were my own fault, but I'm now seeking advice for the future.

I wanted to unmount the drive. Drive was busy (seems it is as long as smbd is running). So I do umount -f, expecting it will kill the process and unmount similar to Unlocker app - it corrupted the entire drive. Didn't work on Windows or Linux, vcn error... After a few days of painful recovery, I set it all back up...
Went to mv a file to a subfolder, got impatient, cancelled it. Tried to remove the partial file - IO error! Couldn't remove it, not after reboot, not as root, no way. And I couldn't access the entire folder because of that one file.

To fix, I had to plug in the drive to the Windows machine, saw the file for a sec, then file disappeared itself (some self-repair system?)

sometimes the drive doesn't appear at all, takes a few repluggings to get it working? On Windows machine it works okay.

Is there any other FS you could recommend? (needs to be Windows compatible as well)

Thank you.

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[–] ADB-UK@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which ntfs software are you using?

IIRC there are three options now (inc one in the kernel that's supposed to be a bit rough still) but the most stable seems to be the older fuse option of ntfs-3g.

I moved to getting none Linux boxes reading Ext4 drives using https://www.paragon-software.com/ drivers.

Have you tried using wsl mount on Windows to access Ext drives (may depend on your Windows version)...

Bit baffled by u/ajnozari comment on share security issues - SMB via SAMBA is well documented as to how to set things up...

[–] marc45ca@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Bit baffled by u/ajnozari comment on share security issues - SMB via SAMBA is well documented as to how to set things up...

Not sure they're referring to a security issue as much as sometimes SAMBA can be a bit cantankerous with with permissions and security in order to access ahare or that some users have problems with configuring it.