fsck.ntfs on Debian?

Xeratul · 10-10-2015, 06:46 AM

Hello,

Which package may offer the fsck.ntfs?

Code:

/sbin/fsck
fsck          fsck.ext2     fsck.ext4     fsck.minix    fsck.nfs
fsck.cramfs   fsck.ext3     fsck.ext4dev  fsck.msdos    fsck.vfat

Yours sincerely.

michaelk · 10-10-2015, 07:51 AM

Technically there is not a fsck.ntfs. Typically fsck.ntfs is linked to ntfsfix which is part of the ntfsprogs package. It can only fix a few common NTFS errors.

http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfsfix

Xeratul · 10-11-2015, 03:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

Technically there is not a fsck.ntfs. Typically fsck.ntfs is linked to ntfsfix which is part of the ntfsprogs package. It can only fix a few common NTFS errors.

http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfsfix

why there is still no fsck.ntfs?

Nowadays the NTFS formats (before windows 2000, XP and 6-7) are classical and well knonw.

Ntfs >7 is higher complicated but older shall be ok.

ferrari · 10-11-2015, 04:03 AM

The fsck (file system consistency check) utility supports open source file systems. NTFS is a proprietary file system, and so *nix support for it only exists thanks to the efforts of the ntfs-3g developers who have essentially developed the driver and associated tools using various reverse engineering strategies...

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...tfs-3g-created

The 'ntfsfix' man page still includes the following caveat

Quote:

DESCRIPTION
ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. ntfsfix is NOT a Linux version of chkdsk. It only
repairs some fundamental NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS consistency check
for the first boot into Windows.

You may run ntfsfix on an NTFS volume if you think it was damaged by Windows or some other way and it cannot be
mounted.