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10 Frequently Asked Questions
10.1 What are ’minor errors’ reported by chkntfs utility?
Most of information about files (times, sizes, attributes) in NTFS is duplicated and triplicated. Minor
error means that copies does not match original. E.g. "latime" means last access time. The native
chkdsk from Microsoft does not show these mismatches and fixes it silently (if /f is specified)
see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc959914.aspx. Paragon chkntfs utility can also find
the following minor errors:
mdtime - modification time
chtime - last change time
asize - data allocated size
dsize - data size
attrib - attributes
To see more verbose output on minor errors, use -showminors command line option when running
chkntfs. For an example output, please see the log below:
# chkntfs --showminors /dev/sda2
WARNING! f parameter not specified.
Running chkntfs in read-only mode.
Checking Volume /dev/sda2...
Verifying 1680 records ...
$UpCase file is formatted for use in Windows NT/2K/XP Verifying 161
,folders ...
minor error " latime" in index 0x5 "." => "admin"
minor error " latime" in index 0xb "$Extend" => "$Reparse"
minor error " latime" in index 0x1f "public" => "EZ TALK.doc"
minor error " latime" in index 0x1f "public" => "Fedora-13-i686-LiveKDE"
minor error " latime" in index 0x1f "public" => "Fedora-13-x86_64-Live"
minor error " latime" in index 0x1f "public" => "FEDORA~1"
minor error " latime" in index 0x1f "public" => "FEDORA~2"
minor error " latime" in index 0x1f "public" => "FTP_login _information.
,doc"
minor error " latime" in index 0x1f "public" => "Reports"
minor error " latime" in index 0x1f "public" => "... 2 K.M..b."
minor error " latime" in index 0x1f "public" => "...~1"
minor error " mdtime chtime latime" in index 0x5bd
"_restore{FB5EFA8E-F7E1-4999-B498-21EEC0CF7124}" => "RP83"
minor error " latime" in index 0x676 "mungchacha_com .+LC Kung Fu Dunk"
,=> "DISC2.DAT.bc!"
minor error " latime" in index 0x676 "mungchacha_com .+LC Kung Fu Dunk"
,=> "DISC2D~1.BC!"
Verifying files security...
4.83 Gb in 1492 files
464 Kb in 163 directories
0 Kb in bad blocks in 0 fragments
90424 Kb in use by the system
65536 Kb occupied by the log file
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