Hello! do you see any messages in the dmesg? Do the files appear with something like a padlock icon? Enrico On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 03:48:24PM +0200, Tom wrote: > Howdy, > > I have an NTFS partition which contains a few files which are > unreadable. All the other files are fine. > > This seems weird as I can't even read them as root. I do not believe > the disk's physical blocks belonging to the files are damaged. > > I did run from a Windows system 'chkdsk /f d:' to check the partition > and try to fix it but no issue was detected. > > I am running Linux 6.1.90 x86_64. > > mount command excerpt: > > /dev/sda2 on /media/tomas/DiskWithTheIssue type fuseblk > (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2) > > ls command excerpt: > > # ls -lh > total 1.5G > -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 583M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8446.MOV > -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 581M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8447.MOV > -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 170M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8448.MOV > -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 19M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8449.MOV > -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 42M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8450.MOV > -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 116M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8452.MOV > > > file command excerpt: > > # file * > TRE_8446.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8446.MOV' (Permission denied) > TRE_8447.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8447.MOV' (Permission denied) > TRE_8448.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8448.MOV' (Permission denied) > TRE_8449.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8449.MOV' (Permission denied) > TRE_8450.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8450.MOV' (Permission denied) > TRE_8452.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8452.MOV' (Permission denied) > > > Does anyone have an idea what's going on here? Is this due to some > weird NTFS feature to encrypt files or something which is not > implemented in the Linux driver? or what..? > > > Thanks all a lot. >
