[Linux-NTFS-Dev] ntfsclone, ntfswipe

[Andrew S. <aso...@ag...>]

++Im new to the list.

Szaka,

	Ive talked to Flatcap (Richard Russon) and Leonard on irc about my
finishing or helping finish ntfswipe. As Im new to the concepts of NTFS I
thought I might be able to gain some insite from your ntfsclone code. If it
works the way I think it does, I should be able to splice part of it into
ntfswipe to handle locating of unused sectors.

	So my question is does ntfsclone simply ignore all unused space?
And, by zeroing the space that ntfsclone ignores (and ignoring the space
ntfsclone keeps) should I have correctly wiped all unused sectors?

	A second question is: Is the sparse file created by ntfs clone left
formated in the original block order of the file system or has it been
reordered in some way (say to make it easier for developers to get usefull
information from)? I.e. If one were to cat the sparse file created by
ntfsclone to /dev/hdsomething would it reproduce the original NTFS?

	Thanks for helping a newbie,
	Andy Somerville