I legit thought I had stumbled into a shittysysadmin thread for a moment.
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
Paragon’s NTFS driver was also upstreamed in the kernel in like 5.15.
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.
Correct
just do it in kvm
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.
I think it is but some distros already come with ntfs support and there is no point in buying it
Windows users used to buy crap to have a functioning system unfortunately dont't know that there is no need for this in linuxland
I'm surprised at using ntfs-3g these days, but one major difference is that ntfs-3g uses FUSE in userspace.
Paragon has an in-kernel driver that is much faster, although I would expect your distro already includes it.
You can check with something like cat /boot/config-* | grep NTFS3_FS
I dual boot and and I have 4TB HDD that is also formatted to NTFS. I can access both from my Linux system, and move files between the two, with ntfs-3g all the time. I even have them both automount on boot and have never had an issue.
Until this post, I've always thought this paragon software was to be used on Windows to access the Linux ext4/btrsf... Etc drives!
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