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Cannot see/mount NTFS partition on external HDD which works well in Windows

I attached my working 3,5" 3TB HDD to my Raspberry Pi 4. I'm using an old case from a HDD called Seagate Freeagent, the actual drive is a WD Blue with 3TB. So after attaching it to the pi, I get ...
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Does the 2022-04-04 Raspberry PI OS update contain the new Paragon NTFS support

The release notes show Linux kernel 5.15.30 which is supposed to contain the new Paragon NTFS module, but after updating I see no performance improvement over the old NTFS-3g support. Perhaps there's ...
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Use same SSD as Pi boot image and Windows/Pi file store

I’ve scoured the web and this forum for an answer to my question and came up empty. So apologies if this is answered elsewhere. I have a 1GB m.2 SATA SSD that I would like to BOTH use as my Pi boot ...
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Slow NTFS write speeds, on external USB drive?

I have my 4GB Pi4 set up with automount and have an NTFS formatted USB3 hard drive, connected via the USB 3 port. Looking at the driver via the mount command: /dev/sda1 on /media/Seagate_sda1 type ...
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Non-FUSE drivers for NTFS and exfat

I've run long benchmarks about write speed on a USB3 external HDD on a RPi4 (goal: use it as a NAS), with and without encryption. I've noticed that write speed is very fast with ext3, ext4 (it can ...
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Low NTFS performance, software issue or inherent to the hardware?

I am using the latest stable Raspberry Pi OS (32bit) with a Pi 4. One thing I have found is that its NTFS write speed is very slow. On the same disk, the writing speed on an NTFS partition was about ...
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How to mount (and keep) a NTFS HDD with RW permissions

I have the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, I've installed Raspbian OS using NOOBS. Everything works fine until I plug in my NTFS HDD via USB, the hard drive is detected and mounted automatically, but with RO ...
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Raspberry Pi 4, terrible performance at the USB3 port

I have installed my Raspi 4 freshly today (latest Raspberry Pi Os). The SD Card performance is kind of okay (~40 MB/s write). However the USB3 performance is terrible. I have plugged in a mobile ...
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How do I go about auto-mounting my NTFS hard drive at boot?

There are questions similar to this one, but I am not an expert Unix user so I really don't wanna try and break /etc/fstab while doing this. Here's what blkid tells me about my hard drive: /dev/sda1: ...
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Emulating NTFS USB drive using Zero W

I'd like to hook up my Zero W to my TV's USB jack. The idea would be to transfer photos/videos from my laptop to my Pi via SSH, and they would appear on my TV. There is an article that explains the ...
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Mounting USB-HDD with NTFS filesystem on Raspbian boot

I use Raspberry pi3+ as a small NAS (with Samba). I have to use a couple of HDDs in usb-sata cases with NTFS file system. Raspbian mounts them automatically on boot in /media/pi directory. I don't ...
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is the Raspbian NTFS implementation journaled?

I read somewhere that Raspbian NTFS implementation is not journaled, but I didn't find confirmation that it is true. If it is true there is a way to have it journaled? I'm using it on a USB stick ...
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Auto-mounting NTFS with usbmount gives error "Transport endpoint is not connected"

I have tried to configure usbmount to automatically mount ntfs (and other file systems, like vfat and hfsplus which all work as expected) devices. Here is my /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf file: # ...
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Mounted HDD formatted NTFS to Pi 3b, having some quirks

I am running a RetroPie image that downloads ROM sets directly to my Pi. As you can guess I ran out of space on my SD card. I decided to purchase a desktop hdd, seagate 3 TB with external power ...
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"Transport endpoint is not connected" after a few seconds?

I set up a RPi as a SMB server with the official Raspbian jessie image (not lite). I installed samba and ntfs-3g for this purpose. The problem is whenever I start or reboot the RPi, after a few ...
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Permission denied when tyring to use Transmission to download files to a mounted NTFS drive

I am running a Raspberry pi 2 with Ubuntu 16.04.2 as a server. I want to run transmission-daemon and download files to an external HDD formatted with NTFS. When I try to download anything to the ...
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NTFS USB device seen, but not the partitions

I have a Toshiba 1TB USB external drive attached to a Raspberry Pi running: VERSION="7 (wheezy)" The USB device is seen. It is creating a /dev/sda. However, I can't mount the partition as the ...
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Mounted usb drive with NTFS eats memory and cpu

I use my raspberry (raspian) as a backup machine. For syncing files to the sd card I use offlineimap, vdirsyncer and others (-> a lot of files are written). The backup itself is done by rsnapshot. The ...
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Delete file from external NTFS hard drive

I have an external HDD formatted in NTFS connected to my raspberry. I need to clear some space on it but, although I have all the permission and pi is the owner of most of the directories, when i ...
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Raspberry Pi Auto Mounting to the Wrong Location

I rebooted my Raspberry Pi and discovered it has auto mounted the external hard drive under /media/pi/driveLabel! I had originally created a mount point at ~/USBHDD/ before the reboot. How can I ...
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Raspberry Pi 2 not finding External HD

My Raspberry Pi 2 will not pick up my NTFS external hard drive. In dmesg I see the message USB Disconnect. I have NTFS-3g installed. /dev/sda1 does not exist.
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chmod not working on USB drive on Raspberry PI

I'm trying to share WD 2TB USB drive connected to a new Raspberry PI. Running on Raspbian Jessie version 4.1, USB drive mounts automatically. This isn't a problem, but it's not accessible from my ...
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