Beginners • Re: Pi Backup to shared NTFS drive (CIFS)

I have tried to run image-backup and it is successful to a point: After the backup completes, the script runs "e2fsck" and there are errors:

There would be

If I attached the drive to a Windows 10 PC and run chkdsk /f d:, there are no errors or problems reported.

Doesn't that tell you anything ?

NTFS is not a Linux filesystem, it is a Windows filesystem, so of course Windows knows and understands it. However, e2fsck is a Linux tool to check the ext2 family of Linux filesystems, I highly doubt whether it will work against NTFS. There is also the problem of file ownership, NTFS has no concept of Linux file ownership.

Statistics: Posted by hortimech — Thu May 02, 2024 7:49 am

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