[–] PolishPandaBear 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
How about formatting it to ext4? Maybe this will help.
[–] 2283775? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Have you done extremely thorough scans for malware? I don't think everyone is seeing the level of activity in Windows 10 that you describe.
I have a Windows 10 test pc and I don't notice anything unusual happening with my network drive when I fire it up. When you say it's eating up space, have you found what it's filling your drive with? Is it the backup?
[–] ObeyTheFist 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
This is insightful, it could be malware.
Or Windows Search doing indexing.
[–] Chiefpacman ago
I would of guessed that, but deleting photo's? That's gotta be something bad.
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[–] ObeyTheFist 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
OP said Linux is not an option in this case.
[–] WildThingSammiT 3 points 0 points 3 points (+3|-3) ago
Why is switching to Linux "not an option?"
It's free, it's fairly easy to switch to, and, depending on the "distro" (version of linux), it's easy to use.
[–] Kaizervonmaanen 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Because he is in love with Microsoft and it would feel wrong for him.
[–] Chiefpacman ago
That's not the reason a lot of us are on the fence. We would really have to cripple ourselves to move over, I have gone as far as to get another computer to start experimenting w/ linux/gnu.
The trouble I have had has already made my cold feet colder; albeit not totally the OS's fault. And I'm in windows 7, not feeling the pain these 10 users are.
[–] ObeyTheFist ago
Contrary to popular belief in the open source community, Linux doesn't always "just work". Not every application, especially commercial applications used in enterprise will work even under WINE.
And if you're running any hardware outside of the minority subset of PC components that are natively supported by even the most popular distros, good luck, and kiss goodbye to your weekend trying to make it work.
I know, it's better today than it ever has been, and much more viable for some, but it's still not for everyone.
[–] multidan 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What do you mean by superfetch eating up 1tb? It indexed 1tb? It filled 1tb with a file?
If you don't want your OS to access your drive... Don't access that drive with that OS. You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you use an OS for a task it by definition has to have the ability to do that task.
If you want superfetch to stop indexing, Google it. Others have it explained a lot better than we can.
What do you mean by superfetch eating up 1tb? It indexed 1tb? It filled 1tb with a file?
I don't know what happened, tried to analyze that drive where the disk space went but found nothing. But it went clearly down fast https://slimgur.com/image/B63 at the moment Windows 10 was doing something on it.
At that moment I did not know about superfetch. Also Windows 10 never did this before since I installed it.
[–] Kaizervonmaanen 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If Linux is not a option then you just have to live with it. Encryption don't help because the search will be done after you have put in the encryption key. There is no known way to avoid windows searching and gathering information from your drives. You can cut it off from the Internet completely and use a Linux computer to move any files to and from the Internet. Windows searches your drives and send them to Microsoft, it is going to use memory and disk space for that no matter what.
[–] ObeyTheFist ago
No known way... Except for all the known ways. Like disabling the search and superfetch services.
Using the hosts file to block the telemetry targets.
Running one of the many batch files or PowerShell scripts to remove the CEIP malware patches from Windows Update.
Please try to be honest when offering technical advice (unless you genuinely didn't know about these options, in which case why are you offering technical advice?)
[–] Kaizervonmaanen ago
Like disabling the search and superfetch services.
According to ars technica that does not stop the spyware or background communication with Microsoft. Using a host file to stop it would seem like a good idea, but that will also stop things like security updates and other important services. The script I have seen to stop it will only partially stopstop it.
[–] captainVerde 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
Try switching to Windows 95. It's 85 versions ahead of Windows 10.
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[–] 2283940? 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
You can, however, replace that operating system with one that gives you more control over how it operates. Unless you have updatedb in a cron job or mdstat is set to run, I don't think Linux will access your network drives without an explicit user action.
[–] ObeyTheFist 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
OP said Linux is not an option in this case.
[–] ObeyTheFist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's a bit disingenuous. OP already identified that superfetch was accessing network drives.
It's not hard to disable that service.