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About ntfsfixntfsfix is quite an old utility. Its name is quite misleading, as its goal is not to fix the volume, but to mark is as dirty, so that Windows will fix it at the next reboot. That technique was neccessary in the days of the old kernel_driver (version 1.X), that allowed unsafe writing support. And unsafe mean that it trashed volumes badly. So a way was neccessary to clean the mess afterwards, and Windows was the best tool for doing that at the time (and still quite effective today, although there are some 3rd party tools too, but most of them run on Windows - Sweet Irony). To find out what driver version you have, type: modprobe ntfs dmesg | grep ntfs If you are using the old kernel_driver (version 1.X), which is usually found in 2.4 Linux kernels (some vendors patch it to update it to the new kernel_driver). Make sure you run ntfsfix after you unmount your volume, or you will face corruption of your volume! |
