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13 Paragon NTFS&HFS+ for Linux 9.5

4 Using The Driver

After building and installing Paragon NTFS&HFS+ for Linux 9.5 driver, it can be automatically loaded

at the system startup. The driver allows to mount supported partitions and provides access to their

whole contents.

4.1 Getting started

The goal of this section is to help system engineers to quickly ﬁnd out how to use the product. It

describes general approach to mounting partitions using UFSD ﬁle system driver and helps to avoid

common issues. We strongly recommend reading this section before starting using our driver.

To mount volume using UFSD driver, standard mount command is used, with FS type set to ufsd,

e.g.:

# mount -t ufsd /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

After this command is executed there can be several mount scenarios for a disk (for more information

see Mount troubleshooting subsection):

• The disk is “clean” (without any errors), mounted by the driver and ready to use.

• Disk can’t be mounted. In this case can be several scenarios:

1. Disk has “dirty” ﬂag set (for more information see Dirty ﬂag issues subsection):

– Use chkntfs/chkhfs utilities with -a -f options to check the volume for errors and incon-

sistencies and ﬁx them (if any). This is recommended approach (see ?? or ?? subsections);

– Use ‘force’ mount option (see Dirty ﬂag issues subsection).

2. The disk is a GPT-partitioned disk — check GPT issues subsection for more information.

3. Follow other steps on the Mount troubleshooting diagram to ﬁnd the cause of the issue. Update/-

ﬁx Kernel source code (if necessary) and request new driver for the new Kernel from Paragon

Software.

Analyze returned status and check output of (dmesg | tail). In case of failure, follow the ?? to ﬁnd

possible causes and and try to mount the partition again using the same or different mount options, if

needed (see Mount options subsection).

If there is still a problem mounting the partition ﬁll out Paragon’s online request form from your user

account so we could help you with the issue.

4.2 Mounting and unmounting partitions

Mounting NTFS and HFS+ volumes

To mount volume using UFSD driver, use mount command with FS type set to ufsd, e.g.:

# mount -t ufsd /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

Sometimes volumes cannot be mounted using ’mount’ command, for example:

# mount -t ufsd /dev/sdd1 /mnt/sdd1

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1,

missing codepage or helper program, or other error

In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try