Section 8: administration and privileged commands
ntfsprogs – tools for doing neat things with NTFS Overview ntfsprogs is a suite of NTFS utilities based around a shared library. The tools are available for free and come with full source code. Tools mkntfs(8) – Create an NTFS filesystem. ntfscat(8) – Dump a file’s content to the standard output. ntfsclone(8) – Efficiently clone,…
ntfsls – list directory contents on an NTFS filesystem Synopsis ntfsls [options] device ntfsls [ -a | –all ] [ -F | –classify ] [ -f | –force ] [ -h | –help ] [ -i | –inode ] [ -l | –long ] [ -p | –path PATH ] [ -q | –quiet ]…
ntfslabel – display/change the label on an ntfs file system Synopsis ntfslabel [options] device [new-label] Description ntfslabel will display or change the file system label on the ntfs file system located on device. It can also change the serial number of the device. If the optional argument new-label is not present, and no option is…
ntfsinfo – dump a file’s attributes Synopsis ntfsinfo [options] device Description ntfsinfo will dump the attributes of inode inode-number or the file path-filename and/or information about the mft ( -m option). Run ntfsinfo without arguments for a full list of options. Options Below is a summary of all the options that ntfsinfo accepts. Nearly all…
ntfsfix – fix common errors and force Windows to check NTFS Synopsis ntfsfix [options] device Description ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. ntfsfix is NOT a Linux version of chkdsk. It only repairs some fundamental NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS consistency check for the first…
ntfsfallocate – preallocate space to a file on an NTFS volume Synopsis ntfsfallocate [options] -l length device file [attr-type [attr-name]] Description ntfsfallocate preallocates space for any attribute of a file or directory, thus reserving space before actual contents is written. This is similar to fallocate(1). Options Below is a summary of all the options that…
ntfsdecrypt – decrypt or update NTFS files encrypted according to EFS Synopsis ntfsdecrypt [options] -k key.pfx device file Description ntfsdecrypt decrypts a file from an unmounted device and print the decrypted data on the standard output. It can also update an encrypted file with the encryption key unchanged. The NTFS file encryption (known as EFS)…
ntfscp – copy file to an NTFS volume. Synopsis ntfscp [options] device source_file destination Description ntfscp will copy file to an NTFS volume. destination can be either file or directory. In case if destination is directory specified by name then source_file is copied into this directory, in case if destination is directory and specified by…
ntfscmp – compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences Synopsis ntfscmp [OPTIONS] DEVICE1 DEVICE2 Description The ntfscmp program makes a comparison between two NTFS filesystems from all aspects and reports all variances it finds. The filesystems can be on block devices or images files. Ntfscmp can be used for volume verification however its primary…
ntfscluster – identify files in a specified region of an NTFS volume. Synopsis ntfscluster [options] device Description ntfscluster has three modes of operation: info, sector and cluster. Info The default mode, info is currently not implemented. It will display general information about the NTFS volume when it is working. Sector The sector mode will display…
ntfsclone – Efficiently clone, image, restore or rescue an NTFS Synopsis ntfsclone [OPTIONS] SOURCE ntfsclone –save-image [OPTIONS] SOURCE ntfsclone –restore-image [OPTIONS] SOURCE ntfsclone –metadata [OPTIONS] SOURCE Description ntfsclone will efficiently clone (copy, save, backup, restore) or rescue an NTFS filesystem to a sparse file, image, device (partition) or standard output. It works at disk sector…
ntfscat – print NTFS files and streams on the standard output Synopsis [options] device [file] Description ntfscat will read a file or stream from an NTFS volume and display the contents on the standard output. The case of the filename passed to ntfscat is ignored. Options Below is a summary of all the options that…
ntfs-config – Enable/disable write support for NTFS with a simple click. Synopsis ntfs-config [options] Description Add write support for all your NTFS partition with this tool. It will configure them to use the open source driver ntfs-3g that allow full read/write capability. Options -h, –help show this help message and exit -v, –version Show version…
ntfs-3g.usermap – NTFS Building a User Mapping File Synopsis ntfs-3g.usermap windows-system-device [other-ntfs-device…] Where windows-system-device is the device containing the Windows system whose users are to be mapped to current Linux system. And other-ntfs-device is another device containing files which are to be accessed both by the Windows mentioned above and current Linux system. the ntfs-3g.usermap…
ntfs-3g.secaudit – NTFS Security Data Auditing Synopsis ntfs-3g.secaudit [options] args Where options is a combination of : -a full auditing of security data (Linux only) -b backup ACLs -e setting extra backed-up parameters (in conjunction with -s) -h displaying hexadecimal security descriptors saved in a file -r recursing in a directory -s setting backed-up ACLs…
ntfs-3g.probe – Probe an NTFS volume mountability Synopsis ntfs-3g.probe <–readonly|–readwrite> volume Description The ntfs-3g.probe utility tests a volume if it’s NTFS mountable read-only or read-write, and exits with a status value accordingly. The volume can be a block device or image file. Options Below is a summary of the options that ntfs-3g.probe accepts. -r, –readonly…
ntfs-3g – Third Generation Read/Write NTFS Driver Synopsis ntfs-3g [-o option[,…]] volume mount_point mount -t ntfs-3g [-o option[,…]] volume mount_point lowntfs-3g [-o option[,…]] volume mount_point mount -t lowntfs-3g [-o option[,…]] volume mount_point Description ntfs-3g is an NTFS driver, which can create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams; it can read and write…
ntdbtool – manipulate the contents NTDB files Synopsis ntdbtool NTDBFILE [COMMANDS…] Description This tool is part of the samba(1) suite. ntdbtool a tool for displaying and altering the contents of Samba NTDB (New Trivial DataBase) files. Each of the commands listed below can be entered interactively or provided on the command line. Commands create NTDBFILE…
ntdbrestore – tool for creating a NTDB file out of a ntdbdump output Synopsis ntdbrestore {ntdbfilename} Description This tool is part of the samba(1) suite. ntdbrestore is a very simple utility that ‘restores’ the contents of dump file into NTDB (New Trivial DataBase) file. The dump file is obtained from the ntdbdump or tdbdump commands….
ntdbdump – tool for printing the contents of an NTDB file Synopsis ntdbdump [-k keyname] [-e] [-h] {filename} Description This tool is part of the samba(1) suite. ntdbdump is a very simple utility that ‘dumps’ the contents of a NTDB (New Trivial DataBase) file to standard output in a human-readable format. This tool can be used…