On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, ab wrote:
> i have/had a very good idea for a new tool (for fat32/ntfs):
>
> store all the meta-information (full path+filename, filesize,
> time/date would already be enough, perhaps crc's for blocks/whole
> files???) of a filesystem, in a file on linux (while windows is not
> running), and store also the sequence of the positions on the hard
> disk where the actual data-clusters are stored.
I've written such a Linux tool for NTFS, well over two years ago:
ntfsclone --metadata --output ntfs-metadata.img <partition>
One can loopback mount and see everything on the metadata image.
> If the fat gets overwritten or windows crashes the directory structure
> on the filesystem, I have a lot better chances to restore some files
> from linux with this information!! (as long as the files haven't moved
> on the disk)
Simple ntfsclone is better, usually preferably with the --save-image
option: the backup isn't mountable but it can be efficiently streamed for
compression, encryption, via network, etc. It depends on the scenarios.
But what do these do with Parted?
Szaka
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