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.\"     Title: PARTCLONE.NTFSFIXBOOT
.\"    Author: Yu-Chin Tsai <thomas@nchc.org.tw>
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.\"      Date: 10/08/2015
.\"    Manual: Partclone User Manual
.\"    Source: partclone.ntfsfixboot
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.TH "PARTCLONE\&.NTFSFIXB" "8" "10/08/2015" "partclone.ntfsfixboot" "Partclone User Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
partclone.ntfsfixboot \- deals with braindeadness with moving NTFS filesystems\&.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBpartclone\&.ntfsfixboot\fR\ 'u
\fBpartclone\&.ntfsfixboot\fR [\fB\-w\fR] [\fB\-h\fR\ \fIn\fR] [\fB\-t\fR\ \fIn\fR] [\fB\-s\fR\ \fIn\fR] [\fB\-b\fR] [\fB\-f\fR] [\fB\-p\fR] {\fIDEVICE\fR}
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBpartclone\&.ntfsfixboot\fR
is NOT a part of
\fBPartclone\fR
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\&.
.PP
\fBPartclone\&.ntfsfixboot\fR
deals with braindeadness with moving NTFS filesystems\&. writted by Orgad Shaneh (2009) and Daniel J\&. Grace (2006)\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,a summary of options is included below\&.
.PP
\fB \-w \fR
.RS 4
Write new start sector to the partition\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB \-h \fR\fInum\fR
.RS 4
Specify number of heads per track\&. If omitted, determined via ioctl\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB \-t \fR\fInum\fR
.RS 4
Specify number of sectors per track\&. If omitted, determined via ioctl\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB \-s \fR\fInum\fR
.RS 4
New start sector to write\&. If omitted, determined via ioctl\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB \-b \fR
.RS 4
Proceed even if the specified device is not a partition\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB \-f \fR
.RS 4
Force the operation to occur even if device does not look like a valid NTFS partition or values are equal\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB \-p \fR
.RS 4
Print debug information (values read, values requested etc\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\fIdevice\fR\fR
.RS 4
where device points to an NTFS partition
.RE
.SH "DIAGNOSTICS"
.PP
The following diagnostics may be issued on
stderr:
.PP
\fBpartclone\&.ntfsfixboot\fR
provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts:
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T{
\fB0\fR
T}	T{
success (values are correct, or changed successfully)
T}
T{
\fB1\fR
T}	T{
a change is needed, but \-w was not specified
T}
T{
\fB2\fR
T}	T{
an error occured
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.SH "BUGS"
.PP
Report bugs to thomas@nchc\&.org\&.tw or
\m[blue]\fB\%http://partclone.org\fR\m[]\&.
.PP
Report bugs to upstrem
\m[blue]\fB\%http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsfixboot/\fR\m[]\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBpartclone\fR(8),
\fBpartclone.chkimg\fR(8),
\fBpartclone.restore\fR(8),
\fBpartclone.dd\fR(8),
\fBpartclone.info\fR(8)
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
\fBYu\-Chin Tsai\fR <\&thomas@nchc\&.org\&.tw\&>
.RS 4
.RE
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.br
Copyright \(co 2007 Yu-Chin Tsai
.br
.PP
This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others)\&.
.PP
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\&.
.PP
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
/usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL\&.
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