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?

  • @anon5621@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    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

    • Leaflet
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      253 months ago

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

    • @MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
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      103 months ago

      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.

      • @DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
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        03 months ago

        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.

    • Igilq
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      73 months ago

      I think it is but some distros already come with ntfs support and there is no point in buying it