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Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today (arstechnica.com)
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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As far as I know, Linux ignores NTFS permissions when given raw access to a disk, or rather, acts as thought it's SYSTEM or some other high-level user, working around anything Windows might have set.

Worst case, you could still move your important files to an exFAT partition (or into an archive) where permissions don't apply.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As far as I know, Linux ignores NTFS permissions when given raw access to a disk, or rather, acts as thought it's SYSTEM or some other high-level user, working around anything Windows might have set.

I think that was the case for ntfs-3g.

I'm not certain that's the case anymore with the new kernel NTFS driver, though I havent tested it. If it isn't, it should be correctly handling the file premissions.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LMDE6 still uses ntfs-3g as far as I can tell, so I'm going to assume that regular Mint does too. lsmod reports nothing like ntfs, and the tried and tested, if no longer developed, ntfs-3g suite is installed.

Things might change as and when the kernel driver is more stable for writing. I'm sure more bleeding-edge distros are already running the kernel driver, but then, those who run those distros are deep into Linux and NTFS is not really something they deal with regularly.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

I believe it actually is used in regular Mint (the Debian kernel doesn't include it, but it looks like Ubuntu's and Mint's do). But yes, I suppose it is still in the process of being adopted by various distributions.