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Theoretical NTFS Question / Data recovery aftersingle overwrite

Georg Bege — 2012-04-16T14:32:34

Hello guys

I've a simple theoretical question,
let's say I've got an 1TB HDD with an factory default set
of NTFS Partitions.
So a part for recovery and another part for data, the harddisk
wont be occupied a lot just a single windows 7 inst. + few programs
(and their data as well as some user data).

Now someone accidently executes the recovery program which is found on
many end-customer PCs (to renew the whole installation), so it comes
that all that data is overwritten... maybe also user data...

How high would be the chance (%) that one is able to recover a single
file from it?
Would such single-overwrite with an recovery installation render this
quite impossible?

cheers
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ntfs filesystem will mount but not open withntfsundelete

Brian — 2012-04-10T12:11:40

I have an NTFS partition -- probably created with Win2k which I can mount with
no problems on linux using the ntfs-3g tools however when I try to run
ntfsundelete on it:

# ntfsundelete -s /dev/sdc1
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdc1' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?

It does mount fine:

# mount -r /dev/sdc1 /mnt
# ls /mnt
4d275a43cb65bc484b083111c98d  FOUND.000         My Documents
$AVG                          Google            old
bin                           Google Earth      Recycled
DrWatson                      Google Earth.lnk  System Volume Information

Any ideas why mount is working with it fine and ntfsundelete is not?

I am using ntfs-3g version 2012.1.15AR.1 on Ubuntu Precise.


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Restore access to more areas of a data partition?

SF Markus Elfring — 2012-02-08T11:44:44

Hello!

I get the following information on my openSUSE 12.1 system.

elfring< at >Sonne:~> LANG=C && df -h /dev/sda6 && ls -l /windows/E
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6       205G  199G  5.9G  98% /windows/E
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users    0 Jan 13 22:34 $RECYCLE.BIN
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users    0 Feb  6 15:17 31aacd3a-93f7-4085-a2ba-5257e3adc132
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users    0 Feb  6 15:02 7714ab39-6974-4986-a5bc-74f23930bd10
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users    0 Jan 24 16:08 Config.Msi
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users    0 Feb 24  2008 Corel
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Jul 27  2010 Dokumente
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users    0 Apr 14  2006 bioscomp
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users    0 Oct  9  2010 builds
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users    0 Feb  6 15:00 c3dc762a-e2fe-4ee7-bb67-89e61f5e83f9


I am missing a few subdirectories in this directory display. They contain bigger 
files which contribute to the shown storage allocation considerably.

I assume that special permission settings prevent a complete directory listing. 
Is the NTFS-3G software capable to make the other data accessible again from 
this partition?

Regards,
Markus

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Windows chkdsk and invalid filenames

Dennis Schridde — 2011-12-27T02:18:48

Hello!

I just ran Windows 7 SP1's chkdsk on an NTFS partition that I usually work on 
from Linux using NTFS-3G 2011.4.12.

chkdsk decided to delete a lot of filenames because they were "invalid" (that 
seems to mean they contain characters like : or ? which Windows does not 
like). Now I am in a state where I have a few dozen file1234.chk filenames and 
dir1234.chk directories, have to figure out what they contain and properly 
rename them. (At least it did not entirely delete the files...)

The NTFS-3G manual says about this in the "Windows Filename Compatibility" 
section: "[ntfs-3g] always creates new files in the POSIX namespace for 
maximum portability and interoperability reasons. [...] This is perfectly 
legal on Windows, [...]"

Now my questions/ideas to prevent such mess in the future:
* Is it possible to instruct ntfs-3g to create both, a Windows and a POSIX 
filename?
* Can it map "invalid" characters of the POSIX filename to e.g. underscores _ 
in the Windows filename? Does "windows_names" do this?
* Is it possible to put the whole partition into POSIX mode, so that Windows 
and tools like chkdsk would let those filenames alone?
* Is it possible that there are filenames on my disk, which are not in the 
POSIX namespace, but not conforming to the Windows namespace, either? How 
could I fix this?
* Is there a free (preferably FOSS) chkdsk tool that behaves more sane, e.g. 
by renaming the filenames to such with invalid characters replaced by 
underscores _?
* Is there any other way I can prevent the problem in the future?

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[PATCH] fix : consider a failure in ntfs_umount asa probe failure as well.

Diego Elio Pettenò — 2011-12-11T02:16:17

As it happens, even though the device reports itself as accessible in R/W,
it might not be (case in point, a loop device set up with `losetup -r`); in
this case, ntfs_open() wouldn't report any error, while ntfs_umount() would
fail with an I/O error (as sync would fail).

In such a situation, the probe has to be considered a failure.

Signed-off-by: Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes< at >flameeyes.eu>
---
 src/ntfs-3g.probe.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ntfs-3g.probe.c b/src/ntfs-3g.probe.c
index 592abd7..ed9e477 100644
--- a/src/ntfs-3g.probe.c
+++ b/src/ntfs-3g.probe.c
< at >< at > -74,7 +74,8 < at >< at > static int ntfs_open(const char *device)
 if (!vol)
 ret = ntfs_volume_error(errno);
 
-ntfs_umount(vol, FALSE);
+if ( ret == 0 && ntfs_umount(vol, FALSE) == -1 )
+ret = ntfs_volume_error(errno);
 
 return ret;
 }

[PATCH] Add a --quiet option to ntfsclone tosuppress progress bars

Matthew Boyle — 2011-11-08T18:24:50

Hi,

I've recently started using ntfsclone in a couple of scripts. 
Unfortunately, the lack of any way to suppress the progress bars makes 
this very inconvenient, since it produces a huge amount of messy output.

This patch adds a --quiet option that turns off the progress bars.  It 
also turns it off if it detects that the msg_out stream is not connected 
to a tty.  The output is otherwise unchanged.

A fix to the documentation is in the works.

These changes can alternatively be pulled from the quiet_option branch 
at git-9UaJU3cA/F/QT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org:ligne/ntfs-3g.git

Please do not hesitate to comment if you have any issues.  But hopefully 
this should all be fairly uncontroversial stuff :-)

Regards,

--Matt

NTFS-3G + NTFSPROGS 2011.10.9-RC Release Candidate

Szabolcs Szakacsits — 2011-10-09T20:54:03

Greetings,

We are happy to announce a release candidate which includes minor 
and major bug fixes, and enhancements as follows:

ntfs-3g: fixed device path canonicalization for use by devmapper
ntfs-3g: fixed setting DOS names when defined with lower-case chars
ntfs-3g: fixed attribute flags controlling recursive writes
ntfs-3g: fixed compilation on OpenIndiana
ntfs-3g: fixed options parsing on OSes with no extended attributes
ntfs-3g: fixed relatime as a default mount option
ntfs-3g: fixed endless recursion when MFT extents are described by themselves
ntfs-3g: fixed the description of inherit option
ntfs-3g: fixed overwriting a truncated file
ntfs-3g: fixed truncation of DOS file names (12 ntfschars, not 12 utf8 chars)
ntfs-3g: fixed the setting of attributes by secaudit (index not synced)
ntfs-3g: faster compression
ntfs-3g: new option delay_mtime to delay updates of mtime+ctime
ntfsfix: new option to clear the list of bad sectors
ntfsfix: fixed compilation on Sparc
ntfsfix: fixed a bug causing a segmentation violation
ntfsfix: repair self-located MFT data bug
ntfsresize: implemented expanding runlists
ntfsresize: updated the description of the -f option
ntfsresize: expand an NTFS volume downwards
ntfsclone: backup bootsector not be to accounted for
ntfsclone: creating/restoring a metadata image
ntfsundelete: try to recover the file name when undeleting
ntfsundelete: use inode number to name unnamed files
library: fixed several bad returns in error conditions
library: enabled getting the sector size on FreeBSD and MacOSX
build: fixed "make libs" to only build libraries

The release candidate is available at

  http://www.tuxera.com/

Best regards,

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NTFS debugging question (corrupted MFT)

Georg Bege — 2011-08-29T23:56:41

Hi guys

Im a long time Linux/BSD/UNIX user, I've a question to an NTFS issue at
this moment.
I dont expect any fixups or wonders, I'd just like to know what the
debugging messages exacly mean or if they can be put in a specific area.

My situation is that I've an HDD at hand which has 3 partitions.
However only the first one is interesting.
Neither can I access the file system via MS Windows nor can I perform a
chkdsk.

I've checked the bootcode so far, thats all well - the error lies
somewhere within the MFT itself.
But what I dont understand is why I cannot access the volume by the MFT
mirror (testdisk just crashes if I want to retrieve a file list).

== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar SE Serial ATA family
Device Model:     WDC WD2500JD-22HBB0
Serial Number:    WD-WCAL72726703
Firmware Version: 08.02D08
User Capacity:    250.059.350.016 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   6
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Tue Aug 30 01:53:36 2011 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

The hdd is absolutly ok, no badblocks or any kind of corruption (though
already a bit older).
I've tested it twice, I also grab a whole copy of the first partition
already.

I'll attach the mount.ntfs-3g debugging log.
kali ~ # ntfs-3g --version
ntfs-3g 2011.4.12 external FUSE 28

Eventually I'll recover some files by RAW scanning, however I still
would like to know if its possible to fix this (or not).

cheers

NTFS3G ported to MorphOS

Leif Salomonsson — 2011-08-19T08:40:07

Hello,

I have ported NTFS-3G to MorphOS operating sytem, btw.
Using a reimplementation of FUSE API.
http://blubbedev.net/filesysbox/

Regards,
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ntfs-3g_common.c bug

Leif Salomonsson — 2011-08-19T08:37:29

Hello,

In ntfs3g 2011.04.12 the file ntfs-3g_common.c
has a preprocessor directive at line 61: #ifdef HAVE_SETXATTR
which is wrong as it removes the rest of the source if HAVE_SETXATTR
is not set.
 
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Patches for ntfs-3g-2011.4.12

Fabian Keil — 2011-08-01T19:28:02

Hi,

the attached patches 1-4 fix what look like potential problems
to me, 5-10 fix clang warnings but the issues should be harmless.

I'm not sure about this code from libntfs-3g/attrib.c:

  5328          if (bytes_read != na->initialized_size) {
  5329                  if (bytes_read < 0)
  5330                          err = errno;
  5331                  ntfs_log_trace("Eeek! Failed to read attribute data. Leaving "
  5332                                  "inconstant metadata. Run chkdsk.  "
  5333                                  "Aborting...\n");
  5334                  errno = err;
  5335                  return -1;
  5336          }

Is it correct, should lines 5329, 5330 and 5334 be removed,
or do lines 5330 to 5334 belong to the if in 5329?

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Does ntfs-3g support journalling ?

Ulf Zibis — 2011-07-11T18:57:23

Hi,

if a ntfs partition is mounted from Linux and a failure occurs e.g. crash, will the filsystem be 
repaired on next boot, as it would happen on Windows XP ?

thanks,
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Question about build a rpm package

kroody — 2011-05-03T09:05:50

sorry for my stupid question first

I want to upgrade my ntfs-3g to latest stable but have some questions as
follows

in suse 11 and openSUSE11.4

SLED 11:

rpm -qa |grep ntfs

ntfs-3g-1.5012-2.14

ntfsprogs-1.13.1-76.15

openSUSE11.4
rpm -qa |grep ntfs
ntfsprogs-1.13.1-116.1.i586
ntfs-3g-2010.10.2-2.1.i586


I found both of them use ntfsprogs-1.13

 rpm -ql ntfsprogs-devel
/usr/include/ntfs
/usr/include/ntfs/attrib.h
/usr/include/ntfs/attrlist.h
/usr/include/ntfs/bitmap.h
/usr/include/ntfs/bootsect.h
/usr/include/ntfs/collate.h
/usr/include/ntfs/compat.h
/usr/include/ntfs/compress.h
/usr/include/ntfs/debug.h
/usr/include/ntfs/device.h
/usr/include/ntfs/device_io.h
/usr/include/ntfs/dir.h
/usr/include/ntfs/endians.h
/usr/include/ntfs/gnome-vfs-method.h
/usr/include/ntfs/gnome-vfs-module.h
/usr/include/ntfs/index.h
/usr/include/ntfs/inode.h
/usr/include/ntfs/layout.h
/usr/include/ntfs/lcnalloc.h
/usr/include/ntfs/list.h
/usr/include/ntfs/logfile.h
/usr/include/ntfs/logging.h
/usr/include/ntfs/mft.h
/usr/include/ntfs/mst.h
/usr/include/ntfs/ntfstime.h
/usr/include/ntfs/rich.h
/usr/include/ntfs/runlist.h
/usr/include/ntfs/security.h
/usr/include/ntfs/support.h
/usr/include/ntfs/tree.h
/usr/include/ntfs/types.h
/usr/include/ntfs/unistr.h
/usr/include/ntfs/version.h
/usr/include/ntfs/volume.h
/usr/lib/libntfs.so

I can't find these .h files in latest src package, so I don't know how to
write spec file to build ntfsprogs-devel rpm package for SLED or opensuse
using latest src.

will some good guy tell me how to deal with this problem?

Thanks

[ANNOUNCE] Stable NTFS-3G + NTFSPROGS 2011.4.12

Szabolcs Szakacsits — 2011-04-10T18:34:57

Greetings,

We are happy to announce the stable, merged release of ntfsprogs and 
NTFS-3G.

The merged codebase will help to avoid duplicated maintenance of the large, 
complex NTFS codebase, so development can focus on enhanced functionality, 
reliability, and interoperability in the future.

Several alternatives have been considered how to organize the code 
(library, tools, driver). The preferred solution is the simplest way which 
is one large package, like Samba. So, there will be need to install only 
one NTFS package (ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs), not two (ntfsprogs, ntfs-3g).

The code and status is available at

  git clone git://ntfs-3g.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs

The package is a compatible, drop-in replacement for both ntfs-3g and 
ntfsprogs.

The package contains the following improvements, changes and fixes:

  ntfs-3g: fixed possible wrong hole size when overwriting compressed data
  ntfs-3g: fixed listxattr() to environments with extended attributes
  ntfs-3g: fixed ENOSPC when making an index non-resident
  ntfs-3g: fixed partial mapping ahead of mapped runlist
  ntfs-3g: enabled forensic mounting (currently same as read-only)
  ntfs-3g: expand an attribute without creating a hole
  ntfs-3g: improved appending data to a long hole
  ntfs-3g: deny direct modifications to metadata files
  ntfs-3g: option 'acl' to request the use of Posix ACLs
  ntfsclone: fixed reading old big-endian ntfsclone images
  ntfsclone: avoided writing beyond allocated variable
  ntfsclone: close volume and cleanup when exiting
  ntfsclone: new option not to clear the timestamps
  ntfsclone: sync created image before remounting
  ntfsclone: use a stream to produce aligned writes during image creation
  ntfsinfo: display times in UTC
  mkntfs: don't store full bitmap and logfile in memory
  mkntfs: set a volume UUID if option -U
  mkntfs: fixed $MFT allocated size
  mkntfs: fixed allocated size of resident unnamed data
  ntfsfix: new option -n for no action
  ntfsfix: try alternate boot sector if cannot start up
  ntfsfix: check and fix the upcase table
  ntfsfix: try to fix file systems with incorrect size
  ntfsundelete: fixed a segfault
  ntfsresize: new option --info-mb-only
  ntfsresize: new option --check

The release candidate is available at 

  http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre Andre and Erik Larsson to make this happen!

  Tuxera Open Source Team

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[ANNOUNCE] NTFS-3G+ntfsprogs 2011.3.28-RC ReleaseCandidate

Szabolcs Szakacsits — 2011-03-28T01:49:14

Greetings,

We are happy to announce that ntfsprogs and NTFS-3G have been merged.
A release candidate is available for review, testing and feedback.

The merged codebase will greatly help to avoid duplicated maintenance of 
the large and critical NTFS codebase and focus on enhanced functionality, 
reliability, and interoperability in the future.

Several alternatives have been considered how to split the merged code 
(library, tools, driver). The preferred solution is the simplest way which 
is one large package, like Samba. So, there will be need to install only 
one NTFS package (ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs), not two (ntfsprogs, ntfs-3g).

The code and status is available at

  git clone git://ntfs-3g.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs

The new package is a compatible, drop-in replacement for both ntfs-3g and 
ntfsprogs.

The code merge has been the priority, web site update follows.

The new NTFS package contains the following improvements, changes and 
fixes:

  ntfs-3g: fixed possible wrong hole size when overwriting compressed data
  ntfs-3g: fixed listxattr() to environments with extended attributes
  ntfs-3g: fixed ENOSPC when making an index non-resident
  ntfs-3g: fixed partial mapping ahead of mapped runlist
  ntfs-3g: enabled forensic mounting (currently same as read-only)
  ntfs-3g: expand an attribute without creating a hole
  ntfs-3g: improved appending data to a long hole
  ntfs-3g: deny direct modifications to metadata files
  ntfs-3g: option 'acl' to request the use of Posix ACLs
  ntfsclone: fixed reading old big-endian ntfsclone images
  ntfsclone: avoided writing beyond allocated variable
  ntfsclone: close volume and cleanup when exiting
  ntfsclone: new option not to clear the timestamps
  ntfsclone: sync created image before remounting
  ntfsclone: use a stream to produce aligned writes during image creation
  ntfsinfo: display times in UTC
  mkntfs: don't store full bitmap and logfile in memory
  mkntfs: set a volume UUID if option -U
  mkntfs: fixed $MFT allocated size
  mkntfs: fixed allocated size of resident unnamed data
  ntfsfix: new option -n for no action
  ntfsfix: try alternate boot sector if cannot start up
  ntfsfix: check and fix the upcase table
  ntfsfix: try to fix file systems with incorrect size
  ntfsundelete: fixed a segfault
  ntfsresize: new option --info-mb-only
  ntfsresize: new option --check

The release candidate is available at 

  http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre Andre and Erik Larsson to make this happen!

Have fun!

  Tuxera Open Source Team

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Stable NTFS-3G 2011.1.15 released

Szabolcs Szakacsits — 2011-01-23T16:56:34

Greetings,

The new stable NTFS-3G release contains the following improvements, changes 
and fixes:

    * New: implemented fsync() and fsyncdir().
    * New: implemented the ’sync’ mount option.
    * New: sanity check upcase table.
    * New: added a big-endian extended attribute name for attrib and times.
    * New: added an extended attribute name for creation time.
    * New: enable renaming of system extended attributes.
    * Change: improved appending data to fragmented files.
    * Change: improved rebuilding a runlist.
    * Change: improved comparing filenames on big-endian CPUs.
    * Fixed stat(2) for system files with no data.
    * Fixed alignment on cached structures.
    * Fixed Posix ACLs for big-endian CPUs.
    * Fixed deleting files using ignore_case option.
    * Fixed allocated size when an attribute update causes unnamed data to 
      be expelled.

The latest release of the software is available at 

http://www.tuxera.com/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

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Stable NTFS-3G 2010.10.2 released

Szabolcs Szakacsits — 2010-10-03T19:41:54

Greetings,

The new stable NTFS-3G release contains the following minor bug fixes:

    * Fixed filename encoding when standard functions are not available.
    * Fixed checking mounted device status on some non-Linux platforms.
    * Fixed mounting with SELinux context.
    * Fixed -n and –no-mtab mount option handling, needed by automount.
    * Improved consistency checks of POSIX ACLs.
    * NTFS-3G manual update.

The latest release of the software is available at 

http://www.tuxera.com/

Enjoy!

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mounting a VSS snapshot using ntfs-3g

James Harper — 2010-10-01T07:13:28

Is it possible to mount a VSS snapshot in ntfs-3g. Eg if I have a
windows machine taking periodic snapshots, is it possible to mount one
of those instead of the 'live' filesystem?

More importantly, is it possible to mount it from a running filesystem
via a shared block device?

Thanks

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Sync mount for NTFS-3g

Alberto Donato — 2010-09-14T14:57:29

Hi all,
   if I understand correctly, the '-o sync' option is currently not
supported by ntfs-3g.
Is this correct? Is this a planned feature or is there any sort of
limitation preventing the implementation?

Thanks,
   Alberto

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fsync() does not write out the file to the disk

Sameer Naik — 2010-08-24T11:03:07

Hello,
I have been working on an application, part of which copies files from
a source location to the destination. To make sure that the file is
written out to the disk, i have been using fsync() call on the
destination file descriptor.

To test whether the file is being written out to the disk,
- i mount a usb thumb drive
- copy a file into the mounted usb partition and call fsync() before
closing the fd
- when the process is complete, disconnect the pen drive (without umount'ing)
- connect and mount it again and check if the file exists and is
copied correctly.

I have tested this on vfat partitions and it works correctly.

I have added support for ntfs partitions via ntfs-3g (2010.8.8
release),  and i am able to mount ntfs partitions. However if i copy a
file to a destination which is a ntfs partition, the above test fails.
i.e. after disconnecting, reconnecting and mounting the ntfs
partition, the file does not exist. Which leads me to believe that the
fsync() call is not working as expected.

If i manually call the 'sync' command before disconnecting the pen
drive, the file gets written out correctly.

Please find attached a sample C application that exhibits this
behaviour. Is there something else that i need to be doing so that the
file gets written out to the disk.

Awaiting for your response.

Thanks and Regards
~Sameer
#include <stdio.h>

#define MAX_BUFFER512

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
FILE *infile;
FILE *outfile;
char buffer[MAX_BUFFER];
int len;
int eof = 0;
int fd;

if (argc < 3) {
printf ("Usage: %s src dest\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}

infile = fopen (argv[1], "r");
if (infile == NULL) {
printf ("error: could not open %s for reading\n", argv[1]);
return 1;
}
outfile = fopen (argv[2], "w");
if (outfile == NULL) {
printf ("error: could not open %s for writing\n", argv[2]);
return 1;
}

while (eof == 0) {
len = fread (buffer, 1, MAX_BUFFER, infile);
if (len < MAX_BUFFER) {
eof = feof (infile);
}
if (len)
fwrite (buffer, 1, len, outfile);
}
fclose (infile);

printf ("sync'ing %s...", argv[2]);
fd = fileno (outfile);
fsync (fd);
printf ("done\n");
fclose (outfile);

return 0;
}
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Stable NTFS-3G 2010.8.8 released

Szabolcs Szakacsits — 2010-08-08T22:00:43

Greetings,

The new, stable NTFS-3G release contains the following functionality 
improvements, changes and bug fixes:

    * New: Full, transparent, read-write compression support.
    * New: Two new mount options: compression and nocompression (default).
    * New: Introduced windows_names mount option to enforce only Windows names.
    * Change: Re-enabled compression in root directory.
    * Change: Reversed default for showing/hiding hidden files.
    * Change: Redefined default user mapping.
    * Change: Marked files whose name has a dot initial as “hidden” if 
              option hide_dot_files is used.
    * Change: Renamed option default_permissions to permissions.
    * Fixed use of utimensat() with external fuse older than 2.8.
    * Fixed a hang when reading a corrupt compressed file.
    * Fixed a possible crash when creating a stream.
    * Fixed all reported and found compressed write related bugs.
    * Fixed partially overwriting sparse clusters on highly fragmented volumes.
    * Fixed checking write errors in setxattr().
    * Fixed processing end of partial runlist for compressed files.
    * Fixed updating file compressed sizes.
    * Fixed checking the device mount state.
    * Fixed processing of options silent and no_def_opts.
    * Fixed excessive cluster allocation within big holes.
    * Fixed creating empty encrypted extended attributes.
    * Fixed too permissive sanity check before compressing.
    * Fixed error returns when writing compressed data.
    * Fixed sanity checked when closing a compressed file.
    * Fixed zeroing the end of an ex-hole cluster of compressed files.
    * Improved sanity checks on security descriptors.

The latest release of the software is available at 

http://www.tuxera.com/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

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