On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 08:37:48AM +0100, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
> Jean-Pierre André wrote:
> >Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301593#c6
> 
> After reading the original report, I do not think the error
> is caused by the use of an illegal Unicode point. File names
> like "Chaînes" are perfectly valid... provided that an utf8
> locale is used.
> 
> Also, when hexediting a file name you may change the collating
> sequence leading to failures in directory index searches.
> If you need to hexedit, use chkdsk to fix the directory
> indexes.

To be clear, I'm only using hexedit in an attempt to recreate the bug
report on my local machine.  The directory in my test only has a
single entry, so I didn't think that collation would be affected.

> Can you get an image of the original partition, restricted
> to metadata, hopefully leading to a manageable size ?
> 
> ntfsclone -mst -O - /dev/something | gzip > metadata.gz

I'm going to ask the user to try to get this.

Thanks,

Rich.

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