partclone.ntfsfixboot - Man Page
deals with braindeadness with moving NTFS filesystems.
Synopsis
partclone.ntfsfixboot [-w] [-h n] [-t n] [-s n] [-b] [-f] [-p] {DEVICE}
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).
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.
- -h num
Specify number of heads per track. If omitted, determined via ioctl.
- -t num
Specify number of sectors per track. If omitted, determined via ioctl.
- -s num
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
Diagnostics
The following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:
partclone.ntfsfixboot provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts:
| Code | Diagnostic |
| 0 | success (values are correct, or changed successfully) |
| 1 | a change is needed, but -w was not specified |
| 2 | an error occured |
Bugs
Report bugs to thomas@clonezilla.org or http://partclone.org.
Report bugs to upstrem http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsfixboot/.
See Also
partclone(8), partclone.chkimg(8), partclone.restore(8), partclone.dd(8), partclone.info(8)
Author
Yu-Chin Tsai <thomas@clonezilla.org>
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Yu-Chin Tsai
This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
Referenced By
The man page partclone.ntfsreloc(8) is an alias of partclone.ntfsfixboot(8).