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From: Ian J. <ia...@da...> - 2003-05-03 13:11:02
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Anton Altaparmakov writes ("Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Implementing ntfsimage"):
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > But an NTFS volume cannot be moved to another partition using dd
> > unless the destination partition is _exactly_ the same size as the
> > source partition.
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> This is completely not true. NTFS doesn't care how big the partition is
> (except for the backup boot sector which can be just left out to be
> replaced by chkdsk). The volume can be much smaller than the partition and
> it all works just fine.
Sorry to be rude, but did you actually read the message you were
replying to ? My whole posting was a discussion of how to deal with
the troublesome issue of the backup boot sector !
> An additional complexity is that your imaging program _has_ to cope both
> with volumes where the backup bootsector is at the end of the partition
> and with volumes where it is in the middle of the volume. - Yes these do
> exist (with NT4-pre-SP4 and NT3).
When it is in the middle of the volume, is the cluster containing it
marked as used in the bitmap ?
Ian.
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