NTFSFIX(8)					       NTFSFIX(8)


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

SYNOPSIS
       ntfsfix device

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the ntfsfix command.

       ntfsfix is a program that fixes NTFS partitions altered in
       any  manner  with  the Linux NTFS driver. ntfsfix is NOT a
       Linux version of chkdsk. It only tries to leave	the  NTFS
       partition  in  a	 not-so-inconsistent state after the NTFS
       driver has written to it.

       ntfsfix appeared because MS chkdsk is well known	 for  its
       stupidity when fixing altered partitions. Because the main
       problems are journal files,  ntfsfix  aims  to  fix  those
       issues.

       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).

       In order to use ntfsfix you must unmount the  NTFS  parti-
       tion,  and  run	ntfsfix	 device, where device is the NTFS
       partition.  After  this,	 you  can  safely   reboot   into
       NT/W2K/XP.  Please  note that ntfsfix is not a chkdsk-like
       tool, and so is not guaranteed that it could fix	 all  the
       alterations provoked by the NTFS driver.


AUTHOR
       This  manual  page  was	written	 by David MartìÌez Moreno
       <ender@debian.org>, for Debian the GNU/Linux  system  (but
       may be used by others).

AVAILABILITY
       ntfsfix	is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available
       from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/.

SEE ALSO
       mkntfs(8), ntfsprogs(8)













ntfsprogs version 1.9.1	    March 2004				1