Updates
2002/03/12 21:48:27-00:00 !antona Change version numbers of mkntfs and ntfsfix to match linux-ntfs release and add options to mkntfs to disable content indexing on the volume and to enable compression on the volume. 2001/11/09 21:30:52-00:00 !antona Considering added functionality change version number to 1.3.0, update docs and mkntfs man page. 2001/08/27 16:58:07-00:00 !antona Updates. 2001/07/25 13:43:10-00:00 !antona 1.0.2 release. Mkntfs now in sbin and minor bugfix to mkntfs man page. 2001/06/13 19:00:56-00:00 !antona More cleanups and man page final updates/polishing. 2001/06/11 04:02:09-00:00 !antona Linux-NTFS 1.0.0-pre-1 - FEATURE FREEZE ======================================= mkntfs complete with option parsing and more cool things. mkntfs man page complete. info files updated. TODO Before 1.0.0 final: - Test mkntfs options & mkntfs itself. - Test tar ball generation. - Test rpm generation. 2001/06/10 18:30:17-00:00 !antona Preparations for the 0.1.0 release. Updating documentation and information. Updating rpm generation and added mkntfs man page which currently is not accurate as it shows all the mke2fs options in it while mkntfs doesn't actually accept any options except for device at all but it is a good starting point. (Logical change 1.5)edge.strict_endians
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.\" -*- nroff -*-
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.\" Copyright (c) 2001,2002 Anton Altaparmakov. All Rights Reserved.
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.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
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.\" Adapted from e2fsprogs-1.19/misc/mke2fs.8.in by Theodore Ts'o.
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.\"
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.TH MKNTFS 8 "March 2002" "Linux-NTFS version @VERSION@"
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.SH NAME
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mkntfs \- create a NTFS 1.2 (Windows NT/2000/XP) file system
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B mkntfs
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[
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.B \-s
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.I sector-size
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]
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[
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.B \-c
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.I cluster-size
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]
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[
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.B \-L
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.I volume-label
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]
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[
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.B \-z
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.I mft-zone-multiplier
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]
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[
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.B \-f
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.B \-Q
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]
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[
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.B -n
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]
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[
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.B \-q
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]
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[
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.B \-v
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]
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[
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.B \-vv
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]
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[
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.B \-C
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]
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[
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.B \-F
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]
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[
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.B \-I
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]
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[
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.B \-V
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]
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.I device
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[
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.I number-of-sectors
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]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B mkntfs
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is used to create a NTFS 1.2 (Windows NT 4.0) file system on a device (usually
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a disk partition).
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.I device
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is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g
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.IR /dev/hdXX ).
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.I number-of-sectors
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is the number of blocks on the device. If omitted,
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.B mkntfs
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automagically figures the file system size.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.BI \-s " sector-size"
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Specify the size of sectors in bytes. Valid sector size values are 256, 512,
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1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes per sector. If omitted,
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.B mkntfs
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.I sector-size
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is determined automatically and if that fails a default of 512
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bytes per sector is used.
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.TP
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.BI \-c " cluster-size"
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Specify the size of clusters in bytes. Valid cluster size values are powers of
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two, with at least 256, and at most 65536 bytes per cluster. If omitted,
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.B mkntfs
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.I cluster-size
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is determined by the volume size. The value is determined as
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follows:
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.br
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.B \tVolume size\tDefault cluster size (in bytes)
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.br
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\<= 512MB 512
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.br
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\]512MB-1GB\] 1024
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.br
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\]1GB-2GB\] 2048
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.br
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\> 2GB 4096
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.br
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Note that the default cluster size is set to be at least equal to the sector
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size as a cluster cannot be smaller than a sector. Also, note that values
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greater than 4096 have the side effect that compression is disabled on the
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volume (due to limitations in the NTFS compression algorithm currently in use
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by Windows).
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.TP
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.BI \-L " volume-label"
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Set the volume label for the filesystem.
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.TP
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.BI \-z " mft-zone-multiplier"
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Set the MFT zone multiplier, which determines the size of the MFT zone to use
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on the volume. The MFT zone is the area at the beginning of the volume reserved
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for the master file table (MFT), which stores the on disk inodes (MFT records).
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It is noteworthy that small files are stored entirely within the inode;
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thus, if you expect to use the volume for storing large numbers of very small
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files, it is useful to set the zone multiplier to a higher value. Note, that
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the MFT zone is resized on the fly as required during operation of the NTFS
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driver but choosing a good value will reduce fragmentation. Valid values
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are 1, 2, 3 and 4. The values have the following meaning:
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.br
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.B \tMFT zone\t\tMFT zone size
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.br
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.B \tmultiplier\t(in % of volume size)
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.br
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1 12.5% (default)
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.br
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2 25%
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.br
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3 37.5%
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.br
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4 50%
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.TP
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.B \-f
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Same as
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.BR \-Q .
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.TP
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.B \-Q
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Perform quick format. This will skip both zeroing of the volume and bad sector
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checking.
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.TP
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.B \-n
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Causes
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.B mkntfs
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to not actually create a filesystem, but display what it would do if it were
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to create a filesystem. All steps of the format are carried out except the
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actual writing to the device.
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.TP
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.B \-q
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Quiet execution; only errors are written to stderr, no output to stdout
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occurs at all. Useful if
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.B mkntfs
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is run in a script.
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.TP
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.B \-v
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Verbose execution.
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.TP
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.B \-vv
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Really verbose execution; includes the verbose output from the
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.B \-v
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option as well as additional output useful for debugging
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.B mkntfs.
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.TP
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.B \-C
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Enable compression on the volume.
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.TP
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.B \-F
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Force
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.B mkntfs
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to run, even if the specified
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.I device
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is not a block special device, or appears to be mounted.
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.TP
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.B \-I
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Disable content indexing on the volume. (This is only meaningful on
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Windows 2000 and later. Windows NT 4.0 and earlier ignore this as they do
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not implement content indexing at all.)
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.TP
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.B \-V
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Print the version number of
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.B mkntfs
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and exit.
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.SH AUTHOR
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This version of
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.B mkntfs
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has been written by Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> (if that fails, use
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<antona@users.sf.net>).
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.SH BUGS
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.B mkntfs
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writes the backup boot sector to the last sector of the block
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.I device
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being formatted. However, current versions of the Linux kernel (all versions
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up to and including todays 2.4.18) either only report an even number of sectors
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when the sector size is below 1024 bytes, which is the case for most hard
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drives today (512 bytes sector size) or they return the correct number but
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accessing the last sector fails. Either way, this means that when a partition
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has an odd number of 512-byte sectors, the last sector is either not reported
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to us at all or it is not writable by us and hence the created NTFS volume
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will either have the backup boot sector placed one sector ahead of where it
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should be or it cannot be written at all. For this reason,
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.B mkntfs
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marks the NTFS volume dirty, so that when you reboot into Windows, check disk
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runs automatically and creates a copy of the backup boot sector in the correct
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location. This also has the benefit of catching any bugs in
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.B mkntfs
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as check disk would find any corrupt structures and repair them, as well as
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report them. - If you do see any problems reported, please report the messages
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to the author.
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.br
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There may be other bugs. Please, report them to the author.
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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.B mkntfs
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is part of the Linux-NTFS project and is available for download from
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http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13956 in source (tar ball and
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rpm) and pre-compiled binary (i386 rpm and deb) form.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR badblocks (8)
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