9.5
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- System requirements
- Installation
- Using The Driver
- Mount options
- Additional Utilities
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting processes
- Mount troubleshooting
- The install.sh script can’t find kernel sources
- Can’t compile the NTFS/HFS+ for Linux driver
- “Can’t load module” message at the end of installation
- ufsd module: kernel-module version mismatch
- ufsd module: create_module: operation is not permitted
- insmod: a module named as ufsd already exists
- insmod: Unknown symbol jnl_op (err0)
- Can’t mount NTFS/HFS+ volume
- Hardware issues
- Sysdump utility
- UFSD driver compatibility
- Frequently Asked Questions
- What are 'minor errors' reported by chkntfs utility?
- Warnings on Windows7/Vista when NTFS HDD is reconnected from Linux
- Recently changed file has its modification time a few hours ahead of or behind the current system time. Why?
- Why does mount option A make driver ignore mount option B?
- Does the driver have an optimization for avoiding data fragmentation?
- Why a lot of memory is used for volume mounting?
- Why the disk can't be dismounted?
3 Paragon NTFS&HFS+ for Linux 9.5
Contents
1 Introduction 4
1.1 Historical review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 Paragon UFSD technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3 How UFSD works on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4 Key features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 System requirements 7
2.1 Hardware requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 Software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3 Installation 9
3.1 Shipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2 Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3 Installing driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4 Uninstalling driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4 Using The Driver 12
4.1 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2 Mounting and unmounting partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.3 Dirty flag issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.4 GPT issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.5 Issues with large HDDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5 Mount options 15
5.1 Mount options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6 Additional Utilities 19
6.1 ufsd utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.2 chkufsd utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.3 NTFS utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.3.1 mkntfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.3.2 chkntfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6.4 HFS+ utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6.4.1 mkhfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6.4.2 chkhfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7 Troubleshooting 26
7.1 Troubleshooting processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.2 Mount troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7.3 The install.sh script can’t find kernel sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7.4 Can’t compile the NTFS/HFS+ for Linux driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.5 “Can’t load module” message at the end of installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.6 ufsd module: kernel-module version mismatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.7 ufsd module: create_module: operation is not permitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.8 insmod: a module named as ufsd already exists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.9 insmod: Unknown symbol jnl_op (err0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.10 Can’t mount NTFS/HFS+ volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.11 Hardware issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
8 Sysdump utility 31
8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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