partclone.ntfsfixboot - deals with braindeadness with moving NTFS filesystems.
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Bugs
Report bugs to thomas@clonezilla.org or http://partclone.org.
Report bugs to upstrem http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsfixboot/.
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Yu-Chin Tsai
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partclone.ntfsfixboot 10/04/2023 PARTCLONE.NTFSFIXB(8)
Description
partclone.ntfsfixboot is NOT a part of Partclone project but included to fix ntfs boot issue. Partclone
provide utilities to backup used blocks and design for higher compatibility of the file system by using
existing library, e.g. e2fslibs is used to read the used block of ext2 partition.
Partclone.ntfsfixboot deals with braindeadness with moving NTFS filesystems. writted by Orgad Shaneh
(2009) and Daniel J. Grace (2006).
Diagnostics
The following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:
partclone.ntfsfixboot provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts:
CodeDiagnostic0 success (values are correct, or changed successfully)
1 a change is needed, but -w was not specified
2 an error occured
Name
partclone.ntfsfixboot - deals with braindeadness with moving NTFS filesystems.
Options
The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,a summary of options is included below.
-w
Write new start sector to the partition.
-hnum
Specify number of heads per track. If omitted, determined via ioctl.
-tnum
Specify number of sectors per track. If omitted, determined via ioctl.
-snum
New start sector to write. If omitted, determined via ioctl.
-b
Proceed even if the specified device is not a partition.
-f
Force the operation to occur even if device does not look like a valid NTFS partition or values are
equal.
-p
Print debug information (values read, values requested etc.
device
where device points to an NTFS partition
See Also
partclone(8), partclone.chkimg(8), partclone.restore(8), partclone.dd(8), partclone.info(8)
Synopsis
partclone.ntfsfixboot [-w] [-hn] [-tn] [-sn] [-b] [-f] [-p] {DEVICE}
