NAME

       partclone.ntfsfixboot - deals with braindeadness with moving NTFS filesystems.

SYNOPSIS

       partclone.ntfsfixboot [-w] [-h n] [-t n] [-s n] [-b] [-f] [-p] {DEVICE}

DESCRIPTION

       partclone.ntfsfixboot is NOT a part of Partclone project but included to fix ntfs boot
       issue. Partclone provide utilities to backup used blocks and design for higher
       compatibility of the file system by using existing library, e.g. e2fslibs is used to read
       the used block of ext2 partition.

       Partclone.ntfsfixboot deals with braindeadness with moving NTFS filesystems. writted by
       Orgad Shaneh (2009) and Daniel J. Grace (2006).

OPTIONS

       The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,a summary of options is included
       below.

        -w
           Write new start sector to the partition.

        -h num
           Specify number of heads per track. If omitted, determined via ioctl.

        -t num
           Specify number of sectors per track. If omitted, determined via ioctl.

        -s num
           New start sector to write. If omitted, determined via ioctl.

        -b
           Proceed even if the specified device is not a partition.

        -f
           Force the operation to occur even if device does not look like a valid NTFS partition
           or values are equal.

        -p
           Print debug information (values read, values requested etc.

       device
           where device points to an NTFS partition

DIAGNOSTICS

       The following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:

       partclone.ntfsfixboot provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts:

       Code   Diagnostic
       0      success (values are correct, or changed
              successfully)
       1      a change is needed, but -w was not specified
       2      an error occured

BUGS

       Report bugs to thomas@nchc.org.tw or http://partclone.org.

       Report bugs to upstrem http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsfixboot/.

SEE ALSO

       partclone(8), partclone.chkimg(8), partclone.restore(8), partclone.dd(8),
       partclone.info(8)

AUTHOR

       Yu-Chin Tsai <thomas@nchc.org.tw>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2007 Yu-Chin Tsai

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published
       by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.