linux links in root or folder not usable about ntfs3 HOT 15 OPEN

Probably a duplicate of #1; see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ntfs3-dkms/?O=60&PP=10 for explanations: basically ntfs-3g creates its own fake versions of a symlink which are not even supported by Windows, so their use is limited. I suggest you replace them by re-creating them using ntfs3 if you wish to have properly working, cross-platform(meaning both on linux and windows), "symlinks".

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yes, but it's an annoying thing :-)
I'd like to switch from one driver to another in a "transparent" way without having to change the contents of the disc from time to time.
but thanks for reply.

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If you wanted to "convert" all of the symlinks in the ntfs partition from the "fake" ntfs-3g type to the ntfs3 type, all you would need to do is:

• Mount your NTFS partition using ntfs-3g (i.e. mount -t ntfs)
• cd /root/of/your/ntfs/partition
• find -type l, which will tell you all the symlinks present in the partition
• run realpath SYMLINK on all of them, and save both the path and realpath of the symlink in a file for later
• unmount the NTFS partition, and re-mount it using mount -t ntfs3 for the paragon fs
• recreate the symlinks :)
  just leaving this here for anybody who is looking to do what I needed to do for this

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Sorry, I meant find -type l

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you can do something like that using the -exec flag for find; which combined with -print will give you a list with two lines for each symlink, where each second line is the real path:

find -type l -print -exec realpath {} \;

You could then redirect this to a file using > script, and then make it into a script by editing the file, prepending #!/bin/sh, chmod +x script and then formatting the lines like
ln -sf realpath symlinkpath
for each entry; this way, once you re-mount it, you can automatise the process(-f is needed to overwrite the "fake" pre-existing links)

P.S. in order for the script to work you might want to have absolute paths; you can achieve this easily by running the above find command from /, like:

cd /
find /PATH/TO/ROOT/OF/NTFS (other flags)

P.P.S. you might want to quote ("path") all the paths as well in order for the script to work correctly

Edit: I was planning on doing everything manually, but since I took the time to try and automatise it for you I went ahead and tried the above, and can confirm it will work; i.e. I successfully recreated all the symlinks automatically. Might be useful if you have many; if you know how to use vim it will be helpful in formatting the script; for reference here is my script so you see how it should look.

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That should be fine, as long as you stay in that directory, since the "%p" part is only a relative path. Although, you might have to add the -f flag to ln as I was saying earlier, since those symlinks already exist, so you need to -force re-creating them

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realpath PATH gives you the absolute path; as for returning directly the absolute path from the output of find, you can use the trick I suggested above of launching the command from /:

P.S. in order for the script to work you might want to have absolute paths; you can achieve this > easily by running the above find command from /, like:

cd /
find /PATH/TO/ROOT/OF/NTFS (other flags)

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With / do not give only links for this only mounted partition but entire system

Not if you give the "base path" as the first argument to find; i.e. find BASEPATH <Other Flags>

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