Hello! Nothing appears in dmesg when I try to read the file. The file has no lock on the file manager. The following appears in dmesg when I plug-in the disk: [ 209.554207] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). [ 209.584067] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 7814037168 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 TB/3.64 TiB) [ 209.584575] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 209.584578] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 [ 209.584856] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found [ 209.584858] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 209.585405] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). [ 209.643622] sda: sda1 sda2 [ 209.644494] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 210.215945] ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names' Il giorno gio 4 lug 2024 alle ore 16:05 Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > 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. > >