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From: Per O. <pe...@ds...> - 2004-02-25 21:44:22
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 21:09 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Per Olofsson wrote: > > > I see. The reason I never sent anything to you is that my utilities > > are just a hack > > That's ok :) > > > and don't really work as they are now. > > That's not so ok :) If you're interested, you can get the source from <http://dsv.su.se/~pelle/ntfsimage/>. It worked when I tried it on a filesystem that I had created with mkntfs, but it didn't work on a real Windows partition. I don't know if it actually compiles with the latest libntfs either. The format of the sparse images are documented in comments in the source code. The biggest problem with this code is that it doesn't do enough error checking. > I think that was also what I suggested. ntfsimage and ntfsrestore? Or just > ntfsimage? The point of not calling the restoration utility ntfsrestore is that it isn't really specific to NTFS - it could work with any filesystem. Only the image creator (ntfsimage) is specific to NTFS. > I'm also quite sure when we would be ready Ian will also arrive saying > "here is my ntfsimage I promised a year ago!" :) Surely :) > Merging the two using the name ntfsimage would solve my "ntfsclone syntax > problem" also :) Yes :) I'll have to look more at the ntfsclone source code and see if I can work out a patch, but I can't promise anything. My ntfsimage utility also has the feature of skipping the page file and the bad clusters file, which perhaps also could be added to ntfsclone as a command line option. -- Pelle |
