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- ntfscp: fix signal hanling: handle both SIGTERM and SIGINT, print
correct message. (Yura)
- Update manual pages for ntfsprogs, ntfsclone, ntfsresize. (Szaka)
- Update manual pages for ntfsprogs, ntfsclone, ntfsresize and
ntfsfix. (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: detect and hint users if the destination fs does not
support sparse files. (Szaka)
- Fix memory managament error in ntfs_inode_close. (Yura)

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.TH NTFSFIX 8 "March 2004" "ntfsprogs version @VERSION@"
.TH NTFSFIX 8 "July 2005" "ntfsprogs version @VERSION@"
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.SH NAME
ntfsfix \- tool for fixing NTFS partitions altered by the Linux kernel NTFS driver.
ntfsfix \- fix common errors and force Windows to check NTFS
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ntfsfix
.I device
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B ntfsfix
command.
.PP
.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
.\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics,
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\fBntfsfix\fP is a program that fixes NTFS partitions altered in any
manner with the Linux NTFS driver. \fBntfsfix\fP is \fBNOT\fP a Linux
version of chkdsk. It only tries to leave the NTFS partition in a
not-so-inconsistent state after the NTFS driver has written to it.
\fBntfsfix\fP is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems.
\fBntfsfix\fP is \fBNOT\fP a Linux
version of chkdsk. It only repairs some fundamental NTFS inconsistencies,
resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS consistency check for
the first boot into Windows.
.sp
\fBntfsfix\fP appeared because MS chkdsk is well known for its
stupidity when fixing altered partitions. Because the main problems
are journal files, \fBntfsfix\fP aims to fix those issues.
.sp
Running ntfsfix after mounting NTFS partitions read-write is recommended
for reducing the chance of severe data loss when NT/W2K/XP tries to remount
the affected partition(s).
.sp
In order to use \fBntfsfix\fP you must unmount the NTFS partition, and run
ntfsfix device, where device is the NTFS partition. After this, you can
safely reboot into NT/W2K/XP. Please note that \fBntfsfix\fP is not a
chkdsk-like tool, and so is not guaranteed that it could fix all the
alterations provoked by the NTFS driver.
You may run
.B ntfsfix
on an NTFS volume if you think it's damaged and it can't be mounted.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by David Martínez Moreno
<ender@debian.org>, for Debian the GNU/Linux
system (but may be used by others).
The original ntfsfix manual page was written by David Martínez Moreno
<ender@debian.org> and rewritten
by Szabolcs Szakacsits to reflect the current role of
.B ntfsfix.
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B ntfsfix
is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available from