9.5

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21 Paragon NTFS&HFS+ for Linux 9.5
-fs:hfs Treat target volume as HFS+
-f Fix errors on the disk
-a Perform checks only if ‘dirty’ flag is set
-b:size Override default block (sector) size. Usage of default settings are strongly
recommended. The ’-b’ parameter can use following values: 512, 1024,
2048, 4096.
-m:size Set a limit for memory usage during file system check. Usage of this parameter
may lower file system check performance.
-h Display this help
-short Minimum file system check
-safe Errors are not fixed, dirty flag is cleared if no errors found
-showminors Show minor errors
-no-orphans Do not restore real orphan files
-trace Turn on UFSD trace
-verbose Explain what is being done
-nopercents Do not print percents during checking process
-version Show version and exit
Description
chkufsd is a combined utility that allows to check and fix file systems supported by the Paragon
driver.
Note: Since version 9.4.3 this tool is actually a hardlink to the ufsd utility. In order to make sure that
the files are not taking unnecessary space, it is advised to unpack provided archive on the target
platform, or create hardlinks to the ’ufsd’ utility manually.
6.3 NTFS utilities
There are 2 basic utilities for NTFS file system:
mkntfs format any partition as NTFS under Linux
chkntfs check NTFS partition for integrity and (optionally) fix errors
6.3.1 mkntfs
mkntfs utility creates NTFS volumes (1.2, 3.0, 3.1 (Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8.1/10)
file system) on user specified (block) device (disk partition) under Linux OS.
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