Portions Copyright (c) 2009, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Szabolcs Szakacsits
Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Anton Altaparmakov
Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Richard Russon
Copyright (c) 2007 Yura Pakhuchiy
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation ; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed
in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program
(in the main directory of the Linux-NTFS distribution in the file COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 11-1307 USA
ntfsfix [options] device
The ntfsfix utility fixes some common NTFS problems. Note that it is not a version of chkdsk. It repairs some fundamental NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file, and schedules an NTFS consistency check for the next reboot of the operating system.
Run ntfsfix on an NTFS volume if you think it was damaged by the operating system or in some other way and it cannot be mounted.
Supported options are listed below.
-h, --help
Show a list of options with a brief description of each.
-V, --version
Show the version number, copyright, and license information.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
mkntfs(1M), ntfsprogs(1M), parted(1M), attributes(5)
http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org
ntfsfix was written by Anton Altaparmakov, with contributions from Szabolcs Szakacsits.