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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-03-15 14:49:00
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Hi, As far as I understood from the forum (see https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=964201&forum_id=44084), the hidden sectors entry in the ntfs boot sector means the sector location of the start of the partition relative to the beginning of the disk. Szaka, is this correct? Does anyone have any ideas as to how mkntfs (or ntfsclone for that matter) could determine the value necessary for the hidden sectors field in the ntfs boot sector? E.g. should we parse the output of fdisk or should we try to do it ourselves? What about Windows dynamic disks/partition on a file rather than a device, etc? Perhaps as a start we could provide a command line option that allows the user to set the value of hidden_sectors? Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
