The filtering of files to undelete is usually done through the regex
library. This patch offers an alternate way when such a library is
not readily available (typically on Windows).
When ntfsundelete scans the $MFT for possible deleted files, it may
examine extries which have never been used, producing error messages
which most users do not understand. This patch silences such messages.
Allow the "--ignore-fs-check" option to be used when cloning a file system
which has allocation errors. This is useful when there is a fear that
repairing the file system might create further damage, or when the repair
has to be made on another computer.
This patch adds a new option -n to ntfsclone for simulating a restore
without writing anything. This is useful for checking the consistency
of an image without destroying the original partition.
Upgrade the Win32 interface (win32_io.c) which was designed for Cygwin
so that it can be used for using the ntfsprogs utilities on native Windows.
Two new entries are added for truncating a file and creating a sparse
file, both of which not being supported through msvcrt.dll.
When creating a metadata image, all user data is supposed to be wiped off,
but this was wrong for $MFT and directory indexes when they were
fragmented. This patch cleans the tails of metadata fragments.
The MS_* flags originated from system constants. However the flags
passed to ntfs_mount were really unrelated to the system constants and
many new MS_* flags had to be introduced as different features were
added to the library. Those flags had no counterparts in any system
APIs, so using the same naming scheme is inappropriate.
Instead, let's namespace these flags similarly to what has already been
done in ntfsprogs/libntfs earlier. This avoids any possible conflicts
with system constants.
The values of the flags themselves are kept the same as earlier, so
backward compatibility is retained.
The variable 'flags' was modified along the way and did not contain the
original flags at the end as assumed by the last printout. Fixed by
storing the original state of the flags in a temporary const variable.
Since Windows 8 a new stream is added to the upper case file to record
a CRC of the upper case data. This way, if the file does not match the
one defined on the current Windows system, chkdsk can tell whether the
file is damaged or just out of date, and an error is only displayed if
the file is damaged.
The $Info data has been checked to be ignored by Windows XP, Windows
Vista and Windows 7. If not present, chkdsk for Windows 8 complains about
a wrong upper case file.
The named attributes sizes were wrongly computed in mkntfs. This did not
lead to visible errors so far owing to 8-byte alignments in attribute
records (current names $SDS, $R, $O, etc).
ntfsfix now checks and update the backup boot sector on the last sector of
the partition (instead of the sector next to end of the file system). After
an ntfsresize the file system generally does not use the maximum size because
of different roundings and required alignments in the resizing and the
repartitioning.
Defined new options --new-serial and --new-half-serial to set a new
serial number (either the given one or a random one) to a file system.
Useful for mounting the original and the cloned file system at the
same time.
Defined new options --new-serial and --new-half-serial to set a new
random serial number when cloning or restoring a file system.
Useful for mounting the original and the cloned file system at the
same time.
Clearing of user data was wrong when extracting the metadata into a
special format image. In this situation the clearing has to be done
without mounting the file system.
When extracting the metadata, unused data at the end of MFT records is
supposed to be cleared. This was done for the base record of each file,
but not for the extent records.
Clearing the bad cluster list was done by truncating $BadClus:$Bad,
this turned out not to be reliable because chkdsk does not adjust
the size of $BadClus:$Bad when declaring a cluster bad.
This avoids name collisions with Mac OS X system headers (specifically
/usr/include/sys/queue.h). It's quite possible that other operating
systems also have similarly named macros in their system headers since
the function/macro names are very generic.
'wipe_mft' didn't write any $MFTMirr entries for newly manufactured
entries (i.e. entries that were unused and therefore competely wiped and
replaced with a newly initialized copy).
The dereferencing of 'offset' and 'usa' from the MFT record wasn't an
le16* dereference but a u8* dereference, leading to only the least
significant byte (little-endian systems) or the most significant byte
(big-endian systems) being part of the value. (So while this bug could
go unnoticed on little-endian systems for volumes with small values of
'usa', it caused even more significant problems on big-endian systems.)
Fixed by properly casting the address to le16* before dereferencing.
'wipe_mft' was hardcoded to use the USA size of a 1024 byte MFT record
when creating new blank MFT entries. It now calculates the USA size
based on vol->mft_record_size.
This bug led 'utils_mftrec_in_use' to use 'cached' data before it had
been initialized (i.e. its contents was undefined), producing incorrect
results for the first 3584 MFT entries.
When the cluster size is bigger than the index block size, the index
block size unit is 512 (not the sector size) instead of the cluster size.
The partitions formatted by mkntfs and used by ntfs-3g were not
interoperable with Windows when the cluster size is bigger than 4K
and the sector size is not 512.
When undeleting a file whose name cannot be recovered, this patch
defines a name to which the inode number is appended to facilitate
a bulk recovery (recovering the unwanted deletion of a subtree).
When a file is deleted, ntfs-3g deletes the name from the MFT record,
so the name is not available when the file has to be undeleted.
This patch tries to recover the name when it has not been overwritten.
This is mostly possible when data is non-resident and not fragmented.
Jean-Pierre André
Erik Larsson