[Linux-NTFS-Dev] ntfsfix manual

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

Hello,

One drew my attention to ntfsfix(8), it's "somehow" dated and I think it's
one of the reasons people still believe even the rewritten kernel driver
and the NTFS code is experimental and dangerous.

To my understanding, ntfsfix was written to limit the damage what the old,
legacy driver caused when long ago it wasn't able to detect the NTFS
versions and wrote to W2K and XP NTFS formats as if they were NT4 NTFS.

Examples:

   NAME
       ntfsfix  -  tool for fixing NTFS partitions altered by the Linux
       kernel NTFS driver.

Almost valid for the old, legacy kernel driver, not Anton's one what most
distro and the 2.6 kernel use today.

       It only tries to leave the  NTFS  partition  in  a 
       not-so-inconsistent state after the NTFS driver has 
       written to it.

See above.

       Running  ntfsfix  after  mounting  NTFS partitions read-write is
       recommended for reducing the chance of severe data loss when 
       NT/W2K/XP tries to remount the affected partition(s)

See above, moreover write is disabled in the legacy driver for W2K/XP/W2K3
(unless somebody knows how to force destroying them).

Etc. 

	Szaka