Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] $BadClus:$Bad question

[Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, farmer dude wrote:

> Has anyone ever seen $BadClus:$Bad (ie the named
> stream $Bad defined in the sparse file $BadClus) or
> any sparse file present an offset in the first
> run-list descriptor?
>
> My understanding is that sparse files should never
> have an offset for their first (only) run list
> descriptor.  I have two volumes where the offset in
> the run list is -1 and the size is correct (ie the
> number of clusters on the volume).

Please send the output of

        ntfsmeta -di8 partition

The thing you ask about is the runlist of the last entry (attr name: $Bad)
A disk without bad sectors would look something like this (but different
numbers):

  VCN              LCN               Run length
  0                LCN_HOLE          61f6f9
  61f6f9           LCN_ENOENT        0                (runlist end)

ntfsmeta is at http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsmeta.gz

Many people get lost interpreting NTFS data (e.g. missed fixups) and no
much point to explain something isn't there.

	Szaka