They are files that have been deleted, but are still held open by at least one process. Windows, unlike Unix, doesn't allow unlinking a file that has is open, so I imagine ntfs doesn't support it either? The .fuse_hidden files should be deleted automatically when the last process closes them. You can use lsof to check for them.
There are lots of questions on stack exchange, eg https://serverfault.com/questions/478558/how-to-delete-fuse-hidden-files/478619#478619 On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 12:41, Ulf Zibis <ulf.zi...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > I sometimes find files like .fuse_hidden0000xxxxxxxxxx > > What is the reason for that? > Can I delete them or recover valuable data? > > Thanks, > Ulf > > -- > Von meinem Seibert gesendet > > > > _______________________________________________ > ntfs-3g-devel mailing list > ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
