NTFS created by gnome-disk-utility does not work on Windows
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gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
NTFS partitions created using gnome-disk-utility don't work on Windows. Steps to reproduce:
1) Open gnome-disk-utility;
2) Choose to create a NTFS partition;
3) Insert the media with the NTFS partition on Windows;
4) Notice how it will hang forever and never load the data.
I suspect this is happening because it's using the ntfs kernel driver instead of ntfs-3g. One noticeable difference when creating the partition using Linux is that there are some messages on dmesg:
[ 2845.877068] ntfs3: Max link count 4000
[ 2845.877073] ntfs3: Enabled Linux POSIX ACLs support
[ 2845.877074] ntfs3: Read-only LZX/Xpress compression included
I believe the best would be that the default NTFS partitions create on GNOME Disks are compatible with Windows. At least the interface still claims it would be compatible with Windows, even when it isn't.
Tested Xubuntu 22.04 Daily and with Windows 10.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 41.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu75
Architecture: amd64
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CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Jan 16 11:18:33 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-13 (1677 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2019-12-22 (755 days ago)
modified.