Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Michael B. Trausch

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> 
> And just as darkness covers the entire earth, a light comes from the
> clouds.  A voice says, "Behold, this is my beloved son, hear him"
> 
> And then the people didn't need Microsoft anymore.
> 
> :-)
> 

Linux is the way, the truth, and the light, soon people will see that..

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Matthew Fredrickson

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:51:43AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> At 02:42 04/02/2001, you wrote:
> >Hell will freeze, and the US will break off from the continental mass and
> >sink into the oceans before I think MS will ever endorse Linux
> >officially.  I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
> 
> Well there is that. But why not think positive. You never know. Miracles 
> sometimes do happen.

And just as darkness covers the entire earth, a light comes from the
clouds.  A voice says, "Behold, this is my beloved son, hear him"

And then the people didn't need Microsoft anymore.

:-)

Matthew Fredrickson
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov

At 02:42 04/02/2001, you wrote:
>Hell will freeze, and the US will break off from the continental mass and
>sink into the oceans before I think MS will ever endorse Linux
>officially.  I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Well there is that. But why not think positive. You never know. Miracles 
sometimes do happen.

(-:

Anton


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Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:43:54AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> At 02:02 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> >I am noticeable impressed with your ability to address these issues.
> 
> (-:
> 
> >Microsoft would be much happier I am certain with a pure Linux solution
> >for this problem.  They have been incredibly tolerant in allowing
> 
> Believe me, so would I! It's a long way to go to having a fully functional 
> ntfsck Linux utility, but we will get there eventually. And of course, the 
> actual driver is under heavy development both by Yuri Per of Acronis Ltd. 
> and myself at the moment (he is probably doing more than me as he does this 
> as part of a full time job...). In fact I am sitting on a very nice patch 
> for the driver at the moment but want to do some testing before I send it 
> off to Alan as it does quite a lot of fixing including a nasty race I found 
> staring at the code yesterday and several bug fixes and clean ups (or 
> rather rewrites of some functions almost) courtesy of Yuri. So the 
> importance of ntfsfix should become smaller and smaller as time goes on 
> until eventually we won't need it all. (-:
> 
> >me to help customers with trashed drives, but I am sure you are
> >aware that they were only tolerating it since it was helping
> >customers who use both NT and Linux, and even this was quite
> >a stretch they did not have to go.   It's a statement that even in
> >those cases where tey may be helping Linux, they put their customers
> >needs first (this took some convincing on my part).
> 
> Yes, I am aware of that. I very much doubt that Microsoft would be helping 
> Linux without an extremely good reason. I guess the only way part of 
> Microsoft might start working with/on Linux would be if the DOJ would split 
> the company up in two parts OS/Servers and Office apps. If that would 
> happen the Office part would have a growing market interest in a Linux 
> port, which at the moment is out of the question as Office is probably one 
> of the last barriers to a mass user migration to Linux. - Imagine all the 
> office and home environments where Windows is used solely for the purpose 
> of using Microsoft Word/Excel. They could all switch to Linux and many 
> would probably do so if Word/Excel would exist under Linux... It would be 
> very cost effective, too. - Oh well, one can dream. (-;
> 
> >They are very angry at me right now for even doing this in the
> >first place, and I doubt the relationship will ever be back on
> >the keel it was originally, but since I work on Linux almost
> >exslusively now, I do not think it matters.
> 
> While it doesn't matter, I am sure things will improve over time.
> 
> >Good Work, A++.
> 
> Thanks! (-:
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>  Anton
> 
> > > At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > > >To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
> > > >trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these
> > > >tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.
> > > >
> > > >Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
> > > >NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his
> > >
> > > You probably meant Anton in the sentence above...
> > >
> > > >tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing
> > > >these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.
> > >
> > > The NTFS disk edit utility you were providing does quite a lot more since
> > > it is interactive. And my utility doesn't do everything I would like it to
> > > do yet but it does work so I wanted to push a release out of the door 
> > ASAP.
> > > But it doesn't really matter. The NTFS disk editor is a relatively freely
> > > available utility as I found out recently, anyways. It is present on the
> > > Windows NT4 Service Pack 4 CD! It's not mentioned anywhere in the
> > > documentation but it sure is there among the service pack files. I managed
> > > to dig the out in our College computer office and it's now officially 
> > mine.
> > > That has the advantage of not binding you to the license of only using it
> > > for repairing NTFS partitions... (-:
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Anton
> > >


Hell will freeze, and the US will break off from the continental mass and 
sink into the oceans before I think MS will ever endorse Linux 
officially.  I could be wrong, but I doubt it.  

:-)

Jeff 

> > >
> > > --
> > > Anton Altaparmakov  (replace at with @)
> > > Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
> > > ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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> Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: 

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov

At 02:02 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>I am noticeable impressed with your ability to address these issues.

(-:

>Microsoft would be much happier I am certain with a pure Linux solution
>for this problem.  They have been incredibly tolerant in allowing

Believe me, so would I! It's a long way to go to having a fully functional 
ntfsck Linux utility, but we will get there eventually. And of course, the 
actual driver is under heavy development both by Yuri Per of Acronis Ltd. 
and myself at the moment (he is probably doing more than me as he does this 
as part of a full time job...). In fact I am sitting on a very nice patch 
for the driver at the moment but want to do some testing before I send it 
off to Alan as it does quite a lot of fixing including a nasty race I found 
staring at the code yesterday and several bug fixes and clean ups (or 
rather rewrites of some functions almost) courtesy of Yuri. So the 
importance of ntfsfix should become smaller and smaller as time goes on 
until eventually we won't need it all. (-:

>me to help customers with trashed drives, but I am sure you are
>aware that they were only tolerating it since it was helping
>customers who use both NT and Linux, and even this was quite
>a stretch they did not have to go.   It's a statement that even in
>those cases where tey may be helping Linux, they put their customers
>needs first (this took some convincing on my part).

Yes, I am aware of that. I very much doubt that Microsoft would be helping 
Linux without an extremely good reason. I guess the only way part of 
Microsoft might start working with/on Linux would be if the DOJ would split 
the company up in two parts OS/Servers and Office apps. If that would 
happen the Office part would have a growing market interest in a Linux 
port, which at the moment is out of the question as Office is probably one 
of the last barriers to a mass user migration to Linux. - Imagine all the 
office and home environments where Windows is used solely for the purpose 
of using Microsoft Word/Excel. They could all switch to Linux and many 
would probably do so if Word/Excel would exist under Linux... It would be 
very cost effective, too. - Oh well, one can dream. (-;

>They are very angry at me right now for even doing this in the
>first place, and I doubt the relationship will ever be back on
>the keel it was originally, but since I work on Linux almost
>exslusively now, I do not think it matters.

While it doesn't matter, I am sure things will improve over time.

>Good Work, A++.

Thanks! (-:

Best regards,

 Anton

> > At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > >To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
> > >trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these
> > >tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.
> > >
> > >Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
> > >NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his
> >
> > You probably meant Anton in the sentence above...
> >
> > >tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing
> > >these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.
> >
> > The NTFS disk edit utility you were providing does quite a lot more since
> > it is interactive. And my utility doesn't do everything I would like it to
> > do yet but it does work so I wanted to push a release out of the door 
> ASAP.
> > But it doesn't really matter. The NTFS disk editor is a relatively freely
> > available utility as I found out recently, anyways. It is present on the
> > Windows NT4 Service Pack 4 CD! It's not mentioned anywhere in the
> > documentation but it sure is there among the service pack files. I managed
> > to dig the out in our College computer office and it's now officially 
> mine.
> > That has the advantage of not binding you to the license of only using it
> > for repairing NTFS partitions... (-:
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Anton
> >
> >
> > --
> > Anton Altaparmakov  (replace at with @)
> > Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
> > ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:


Anton,

I am noticeable impressed with your ability to address these issues.
Microsoft would be much happier I am certain with a pure Linux solution
for this problem.  They have been incredibly tolerant in allowing 
me to help customers with trashed drives, but I am sure you are 
aware that they were only tolerating it since it was helping 
customers who use both NT and Linux, and even this was quite 
a stretch they did not have to go.   It's a statement that even in 
those cases where tey may be helping Linux, they put their customers
needs first (this took some convincing on my part). 

They are very angry at me right now for even doing this in the 
first place, and I doubt the relationship will ever be back on 
the keel it was originally, but since I work on Linux almost 
exslusively now, I do not think it matters.  

Good Work, A++.

Jeff 


> At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
> >trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these
> >tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.
> >
> >Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
> >NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his
> 
> You probably meant Anton in the sentence above...
> 
> >tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing
> >these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.
> 
> The NTFS disk edit utility you were providing does quite a lot more since 
> it is interactive. And my utility doesn't do everything I would like it to 
> do yet but it does work so I wanted to push a release out of the door ASAP. 
> But it doesn't really matter. The NTFS disk editor is a relatively freely 
> available utility as I found out recently, anyways. It is present on the 
> Windows NT4 Service Pack 4 CD! It's not mentioned anywhere in the 
> documentation but it sure is there among the service pack files. I managed 
> to dig the out in our College computer office and it's now officially mine. 
> That has the advantage of not binding you to the license of only using it 
> for repairing NTFS partitions... (-:
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Anton
> 
> 
> -- 
> Anton Altaparmakov  (replace at with @)
> Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
> ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov

At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
>trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these
>tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.
>
>Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
>NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his

You probably meant Anton in the sentence above...

>tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing
>these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.

The NTFS disk edit utility you were providing does quite a lot more since 
it is interactive. And my utility doesn't do everything I would like it to 
do yet but it does work so I wanted to push a release out of the door ASAP. 
But it doesn't really matter. The NTFS disk editor is a relatively freely 
available utility as I found out recently, anyways. It is present on the 
Windows NT4 Service Pack 4 CD! It's not mentioned anywhere in the 
documentation but it sure is there among the service pack files. I managed 
to dig the out in our College computer office and it's now officially mine. 
That has the advantage of not binding you to the license of only using it 
for repairing NTFS partitions... (-:

Best regards,

Anton


-- 
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Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Thank goodness, it's about time.  :-)


To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these 
tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.  

Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his 
tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing 
these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.

:-)

Jeff

> 
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project 
> > hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source 
> > code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 
> > architecture only), is:
> >  http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
> > You can also use the CVS server if you prefer...
> > Note, that you need the kernel headers installed to compile linux-ntfs 
> > source (probably you will need 2.4.x kernel headers and not 2.2.x ones but 
> > I haven't actually checked whether it works with 2.2.x or not).
> > 
> > The first release contains the all new and wonderful ntfsfix utility, which 
> > repairs some of the damage that the current Linux NTFS driver does when 
> > writing to an NTFS partition.
> > 
> > If you are doing any writing to NTFS partitions using the Linux NTFS driver 
> > this is an absolute *MUST* at the present time. It won't solve all 
> > problems, but it goes quite some way to prevent data corruption.
> > 
> > Run it after dismounting your NTFS partition in Linux but before rebooting 
> > into Windows NT/2000.
> > 
> > Note, after running the utility, when Windows boots up it will run an 
> > automatic chkdsk on the partition which will finish fixing the damage done 
> > by the Linux NTFS driver without corrupting the written data or any other 
> > data (as long as the Linux NTFS driver hasn't corrupted something beyond 
> > repair, obviously).
> > 
> > For amusement value, the first release also includes the ntfsdump_logfile 
> > utility which when used on an NTFS partition will display information about 
> > the journal ($LogFile) of that partition.
> > 
> > Finally both these utilities make use of the also included NTFS library 
> > which offer NTFS access to open source programs. It is currently under 
> > heavy development and the API is not going to remain as it is so don't use 
> > it yet for your own programs.
> > 
> > For everyone interested in NTFS on-disk structures and functionality, you 
> > will find the doc directory and especially the include directory to be of 
> > great interest as the later includes header files with all known to me NTFS 
> > structures. I still haven't gone through all the NTFS information that is 
> > available so they are considered work in progress but are fairly complete I 
> > thing. Most people will probably find that the $LogFile structures have 
> > never been published before anywhere and now we have the restart area 
> > structure definitions.
> > 
> > Any problems compiling/running the utilities, just give me a shout, or even 
> > better submit bug reports on the project page!
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> > 
> > Anton
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done". - 
> > Linus Torvalds
> > -- 
> > Anton Altaparmakov  (replace at with @)
> > Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
> > ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
> > 
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Thank goodness, it's about time.  :-)
> 


Amen.  

Jeff

> On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project 
> > hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source 
> > code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 
> > architecture only), is:
> >  http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
> > You can also use the CVS server if you prefer...
> > Note, that you need the kernel headers installed to compile linux-ntfs 
> > source (probably you will need 2.4.x kernel headers and not 2.2.x ones but 
> > I haven't actually checked whether it works with 2.2.x or not).
> > 
> > The first release contains the all new and wonderful ntfsfix utility, which 
> > repairs some of the damage that the current Linux NTFS driver does when 
> > writing to an NTFS partition.
> > 
> > If you are doing any writing to NTFS partitions using the Linux NTFS driver 
> > this is an absolute *MUST* at the present time. It won't solve all 
> > problems, but it goes quite some way to prevent data corruption.
> > 
> > Run it after dismounting your NTFS partition in Linux but before rebooting 
> > into Windows NT/2000.
> > 
> > Note, after running the utility, when Windows boots up it will run an 
> > automatic chkdsk on the partition which will finish fixing the damage done 
> > by the Linux NTFS driver without corrupting the written data or any other 
> > data (as long as the Linux NTFS driver hasn't corrupted something beyond 
> > repair, obviously).
> > 
> > For amusement value, the first release also includes the ntfsdump_logfile 
> > utility which when used on an NTFS partition will display information about 
> > the journal ($LogFile) of that partition.
> > 
> > Finally both these utilities make use of the also included NTFS library 
> > which offer NTFS access to open source programs. It is currently under 
> > heavy development and the API is not going to remain as it is so don't use 
> > it yet for your own programs.
> > 
> > For everyone interested in NTFS on-disk structures and functionality, you 
> > will find the doc directory and especially the include directory to be of 
> > great interest as the later includes header files with all known to me NTFS 
> > structures. I still haven't gone through all the NTFS information that is 
> > available so they are considered work in progress but are fairly complete I 
> > thing. Most people will probably find that the $LogFile structures have 
> > never been published before anywhere and now we have the restart area 
> > structure definitions.
> > 
> > Any problems compiling/running the utilities, just give me a shout, or even 
> > better submit bug reports on the project page!
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> > 
> > Anton
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done". - 
> > Linus Torvalds
> > -- 
> > Anton Altaparmakov  (replace at with @)
> > Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
> > ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
> > 
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread lists


Thank goodness, it's about time.  :-)

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project 
> hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source 
> code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 
> architecture only), is:
>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
> You can also use the CVS server if you prefer...
> Note, that you need the kernel headers installed to compile linux-ntfs 
> source (probably you will need 2.4.x kernel headers and not 2.2.x ones but 
> I haven't actually checked whether it works with 2.2.x or not).
> 
> The first release contains the all new and wonderful ntfsfix utility, which 
> repairs some of the damage that the current Linux NTFS driver does when 
> writing to an NTFS partition.
> 
> If you are doing any writing to NTFS partitions using the Linux NTFS driver 
> this is an absolute *MUST* at the present time. It won't solve all 
> problems, but it goes quite some way to prevent data corruption.
> 
> Run it after dismounting your NTFS partition in Linux but before rebooting 
> into Windows NT/2000.
> 
> Note, after running the utility, when Windows boots up it will run an 
> automatic chkdsk on the partition which will finish fixing the damage done 
> by the Linux NTFS driver without corrupting the written data or any other 
> data (as long as the Linux NTFS driver hasn't corrupted something beyond 
> repair, obviously).
> 
> For amusement value, the first release also includes the ntfsdump_logfile 
> utility which when used on an NTFS partition will display information about 
> the journal ($LogFile) of that partition.
> 
> Finally both these utilities make use of the also included NTFS library 
> which offer NTFS access to open source programs. It is currently under 
> heavy development and the API is not going to remain as it is so don't use 
> it yet for your own programs.
> 
> For everyone interested in NTFS on-disk structures and functionality, you 
> will find the doc directory and especially the include directory to be of 
> great interest as the later includes header files with all known to me NTFS 
> structures. I still haven't gone through all the NTFS information that is 
> available so they are considered work in progress but are fairly complete I 
> thing. Most people will probably find that the $LogFile structures have 
> never been published before anywhere and now we have the restart area 
> structure definitions.
> 
> Any problems compiling/running the utilities, just give me a shout, or even 
> better submit bug reports on the project page!
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Anton
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done". - 
> Linus Torvalds
> -- 
> Anton Altaparmakov  (replace at with @)
> Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
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[ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov

This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project 
hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source 
code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 
architecture only), is:
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
You can also use the CVS server if you prefer...
Note, that you need the kernel headers installed to compile linux-ntfs 
source (probably you will need 2.4.x kernel headers and not 2.2.x ones but 
I haven't actually checked whether it works with 2.2.x or not).

The first release contains the all new and wonderful ntfsfix utility, which 
repairs some of the damage that the current Linux NTFS driver does when 
writing to an NTFS partition.

If you are doing any writing to NTFS partitions using the Linux NTFS driver 
this is an absolute *MUST* at the present time. It won't solve all 
problems, but it goes quite some way to prevent data corruption.

Run it after dismounting your NTFS partition in Linux but before rebooting 
into Windows NT/2000.

Note, after running the utility, when Windows boots up it will run an 
automatic chkdsk on the partition which will finish fixing the damage done 
by the Linux NTFS driver without corrupting the written data or any other 
data (as long as the Linux NTFS driver hasn't corrupted something beyond 
repair, obviously).

For amusement value, the first release also includes the ntfsdump_logfile 
utility which when used on an NTFS partition will display information about 
the journal ($LogFile) of that partition.

Finally both these utilities make use of the also included NTFS library 
which offer NTFS access to open source programs. It is currently under 
heavy development and the API is not going to remain as it is so don't use 
it yet for your own programs.

For everyone interested in NTFS on-disk structures and functionality, you 
will find the doc directory and especially the include directory to be of 
great interest as the later includes header files with all known to me NTFS 
structures. I still haven't gone through all the NTFS information that is 
available so they are considered work in progress but are fairly complete I 
thing. Most people will probably find that the $LogFile structures have 
never been published before anywhere and now we have the restart area 
structure definitions.

Any problems compiling/running the utilities, just give me a shout, or even 
better submit bug reports on the project page!

Enjoy!

Anton


-- 
"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done". - 
Linus Torvalds
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov  (replace at with @)
Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

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[ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov

This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project 
hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source 
code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 
architecture only), is:
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
You can also use the CVS server if you prefer...
Note, that you need the kernel headers installed to compile linux-ntfs 
source (probably you will need 2.4.x kernel headers and not 2.2.x ones but 
I haven't actually checked whether it works with 2.2.x or not).

The first release contains the all new and wonderful ntfsfix utility, which 
repairs some of the damage that the current Linux NTFS driver does when 
writing to an NTFS partition.

If you are doing any writing to NTFS partitions using the Linux NTFS driver 
this is an absolute *MUST* at the present time. It won't solve all 
problems, but it goes quite some way to prevent data corruption.

Run it after dismounting your NTFS partition in Linux but before rebooting 
into Windows NT/2000.

Note, after running the utility, when Windows boots up it will run an 
automatic chkdsk on the partition which will finish fixing the damage done 
by the Linux NTFS driver without corrupting the written data or any other 
data (as long as the Linux NTFS driver hasn't corrupted something beyond 
repair, obviously).

For amusement value, the first release also includes the ntfsdump_logfile 
utility which when used on an NTFS partition will display information about 
the journal ($LogFile) of that partition.

Finally both these utilities make use of the also included NTFS library 
which offer NTFS access to open source programs. It is currently under 
heavy development and the API is not going to remain as it is so don't use 
it yet for your own programs.

For everyone interested in NTFS on-disk structures and functionality, you 
will find the doc directory and especially the include directory to be of 
great interest as the later includes header files with all known to me NTFS 
structures. I still haven't gone through all the NTFS information that is 
available so they are considered work in progress but are fairly complete I 
thing. Most people will probably find that the $LogFile structures have 
never been published before anywhere and now we have the restart area 
structure definitions.

Any problems compiling/running the utilities, just give me a shout, or even 
better submit bug reports on the project page!

Enjoy!

Anton


-- 
"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done". - 
Linus Torvalds
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @)
Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread lists


Thank goodness, it's about time.  :-)

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
 This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project 
 hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source 
 code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 
 architecture only), is:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
 You can also use the CVS server if you prefer...
 Note, that you need the kernel headers installed to compile linux-ntfs 
 source (probably you will need 2.4.x kernel headers and not 2.2.x ones but 
 I haven't actually checked whether it works with 2.2.x or not).
 
 The first release contains the all new and wonderful ntfsfix utility, which 
 repairs some of the damage that the current Linux NTFS driver does when 
 writing to an NTFS partition.
 
 If you are doing any writing to NTFS partitions using the Linux NTFS driver 
 this is an absolute *MUST* at the present time. It won't solve all 
 problems, but it goes quite some way to prevent data corruption.
 
 Run it after dismounting your NTFS partition in Linux but before rebooting 
 into Windows NT/2000.
 
 Note, after running the utility, when Windows boots up it will run an 
 automatic chkdsk on the partition which will finish fixing the damage done 
 by the Linux NTFS driver without corrupting the written data or any other 
 data (as long as the Linux NTFS driver hasn't corrupted something beyond 
 repair, obviously).
 
 For amusement value, the first release also includes the ntfsdump_logfile 
 utility which when used on an NTFS partition will display information about 
 the journal ($LogFile) of that partition.
 
 Finally both these utilities make use of the also included NTFS library 
 which offer NTFS access to open source programs. It is currently under 
 heavy development and the API is not going to remain as it is so don't use 
 it yet for your own programs.
 
 For everyone interested in NTFS on-disk structures and functionality, you 
 will find the doc directory and especially the include directory to be of 
 great interest as the later includes header files with all known to me NTFS 
 structures. I still haven't gone through all the NTFS information that is 
 available so they are considered work in progress but are fairly complete I 
 thing. Most people will probably find that the $LogFile structures have 
 never been published before anywhere and now we have the restart area 
 structure definitions.
 
 Any problems compiling/running the utilities, just give me a shout, or even 
 better submit bug reports on the project page!
 
 Enjoy!
 
 Anton
 
 
 -- 
 "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done". - 
 Linus Torvalds
 -- 
 Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @)
 Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
 ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
 
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Thank goodness, it's about time.  :-)
 


Amen.  

Jeff

 On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
  This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project 
  hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source 
  code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 
  architecture only), is:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
  You can also use the CVS server if you prefer...
  Note, that you need the kernel headers installed to compile linux-ntfs 
  source (probably you will need 2.4.x kernel headers and not 2.2.x ones but 
  I haven't actually checked whether it works with 2.2.x or not).
  
  The first release contains the all new and wonderful ntfsfix utility, which 
  repairs some of the damage that the current Linux NTFS driver does when 
  writing to an NTFS partition.
  
  If you are doing any writing to NTFS partitions using the Linux NTFS driver 
  this is an absolute *MUST* at the present time. It won't solve all 
  problems, but it goes quite some way to prevent data corruption.
  
  Run it after dismounting your NTFS partition in Linux but before rebooting 
  into Windows NT/2000.
  
  Note, after running the utility, when Windows boots up it will run an 
  automatic chkdsk on the partition which will finish fixing the damage done 
  by the Linux NTFS driver without corrupting the written data or any other 
  data (as long as the Linux NTFS driver hasn't corrupted something beyond 
  repair, obviously).
  
  For amusement value, the first release also includes the ntfsdump_logfile 
  utility which when used on an NTFS partition will display information about 
  the journal ($LogFile) of that partition.
  
  Finally both these utilities make use of the also included NTFS library 
  which offer NTFS access to open source programs. It is currently under 
  heavy development and the API is not going to remain as it is so don't use 
  it yet for your own programs.
  
  For everyone interested in NTFS on-disk structures and functionality, you 
  will find the doc directory and especially the include directory to be of 
  great interest as the later includes header files with all known to me NTFS 
  structures. I still haven't gone through all the NTFS information that is 
  available so they are considered work in progress but are fairly complete I 
  thing. Most people will probably find that the $LogFile structures have 
  never been published before anywhere and now we have the restart area 
  structure definitions.
  
  Any problems compiling/running the utilities, just give me a shout, or even 
  better submit bug reports on the project page!
  
  Enjoy!
  
  Anton
  
  
  -- 
  "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done". - 
  Linus Torvalds
  -- 
  Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @)
  Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
  ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
  
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Thank goodness, it's about time.  :-)


To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these 
tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.  

Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his 
tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing 
these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.

:-)

Jeff

 
 On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
  This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project 
  hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source 
  code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 
  architecture only), is:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
  You can also use the CVS server if you prefer...
  Note, that you need the kernel headers installed to compile linux-ntfs 
  source (probably you will need 2.4.x kernel headers and not 2.2.x ones but 
  I haven't actually checked whether it works with 2.2.x or not).
  
  The first release contains the all new and wonderful ntfsfix utility, which 
  repairs some of the damage that the current Linux NTFS driver does when 
  writing to an NTFS partition.
  
  If you are doing any writing to NTFS partitions using the Linux NTFS driver 
  this is an absolute *MUST* at the present time. It won't solve all 
  problems, but it goes quite some way to prevent data corruption.
  
  Run it after dismounting your NTFS partition in Linux but before rebooting 
  into Windows NT/2000.
  
  Note, after running the utility, when Windows boots up it will run an 
  automatic chkdsk on the partition which will finish fixing the damage done 
  by the Linux NTFS driver without corrupting the written data or any other 
  data (as long as the Linux NTFS driver hasn't corrupted something beyond 
  repair, obviously).
  
  For amusement value, the first release also includes the ntfsdump_logfile 
  utility which when used on an NTFS partition will display information about 
  the journal ($LogFile) of that partition.
  
  Finally both these utilities make use of the also included NTFS library 
  which offer NTFS access to open source programs. It is currently under 
  heavy development and the API is not going to remain as it is so don't use 
  it yet for your own programs.
  
  For everyone interested in NTFS on-disk structures and functionality, you 
  will find the doc directory and especially the include directory to be of 
  great interest as the later includes header files with all known to me NTFS 
  structures. I still haven't gone through all the NTFS information that is 
  available so they are considered work in progress but are fairly complete I 
  thing. Most people will probably find that the $LogFile structures have 
  never been published before anywhere and now we have the restart area 
  structure definitions.
  
  Any problems compiling/running the utilities, just give me a shout, or even 
  better submit bug reports on the project page!
  
  Enjoy!
  
  Anton
  
  
  -- 
  "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet get the work done". - 
  Linus Torvalds
  -- 
  Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @)
  Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
  ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
  
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov

At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these
tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.

Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his

You probably meant Anton in the sentence above...

tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing
these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.

The NTFS disk edit utility you were providing does quite a lot more since 
it is interactive. And my utility doesn't do everything I would like it to 
do yet but it does work so I wanted to push a release out of the door ASAP. 
But it doesn't really matter. The NTFS disk editor is a relatively freely 
available utility as I found out recently, anyways. It is present on the 
Windows NT4 Service Pack 4 CD! It's not mentioned anywhere in the 
documentation but it sure is there among the service pack files. I managed 
to dig the out in our College computer office and it's now officially mine. 
That has the advantage of not binding you to the license of only using it 
for repairing NTFS partitions... (-:

Best regards,

Anton


-- 
Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @)
Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:


Anton,

I am noticeable impressed with your ability to address these issues.
Microsoft would be much happier I am certain with a pure Linux solution
for this problem.  They have been incredibly tolerant in allowing 
me to help customers with trashed drives, but I am sure you are 
aware that they were only tolerating it since it was helping 
customers who use both NT and Linux, and even this was quite 
a stretch they did not have to go.   It's a statement that even in 
those cases where tey may be helping Linux, they put their customers
needs first (this took some convincing on my part). 

They are very angry at me right now for even doing this in the 
first place, and I doubt the relationship will ever be back on 
the keel it was originally, but since I work on Linux almost 
exslusively now, I do not think it matters.  

Good Work, A++.

Jeff 


 At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
 To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
 trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these
 tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.
 
 Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
 NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his
 
 You probably meant Anton in the sentence above...
 
 tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing
 these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.
 
 The NTFS disk edit utility you were providing does quite a lot more since 
 it is interactive. And my utility doesn't do everything I would like it to 
 do yet but it does work so I wanted to push a release out of the door ASAP. 
 But it doesn't really matter. The NTFS disk editor is a relatively freely 
 available utility as I found out recently, anyways. It is present on the 
 Windows NT4 Service Pack 4 CD! It's not mentioned anywhere in the 
 documentation but it sure is there among the service pack files. I managed 
 to dig the out in our College computer office and it's now officially mine. 
 That has the advantage of not binding you to the license of only using it 
 for repairing NTFS partitions... (-:
 
 Best regards,
 
 Anton
 
 
 -- 
 Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @)
 Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
 ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov

At 02:02 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
I am noticeable impressed with your ability to address these issues.

(-:

Microsoft would be much happier I am certain with a pure Linux solution
for this problem.  They have been incredibly tolerant in allowing

Believe me, so would I! It's a long way to go to having a fully functional 
ntfsck Linux utility, but we will get there eventually. And of course, the 
actual driver is under heavy development both by Yuri Per of Acronis Ltd. 
and myself at the moment (he is probably doing more than me as he does this 
as part of a full time job...). In fact I am sitting on a very nice patch 
for the driver at the moment but want to do some testing before I send it 
off to Alan as it does quite a lot of fixing including a nasty race I found 
staring at the code yesterday and several bug fixes and clean ups (or 
rather rewrites of some functions almost) courtesy of Yuri. So the 
importance of ntfsfix should become smaller and smaller as time goes on 
until eventually we won't need it all. (-:

me to help customers with trashed drives, but I am sure you are
aware that they were only tolerating it since it was helping
customers who use both NT and Linux, and even this was quite
a stretch they did not have to go.   It's a statement that even in
those cases where tey may be helping Linux, they put their customers
needs first (this took some convincing on my part).

Yes, I am aware of that. I very much doubt that Microsoft would be helping 
Linux without an extremely good reason. I guess the only way part of 
Microsoft might start working with/on Linux would be if the DOJ would split 
the company up in two parts OS/Servers and Office apps. If that would 
happen the Office part would have a growing market interest in a Linux 
port, which at the moment is out of the question as Office is probably one 
of the last barriers to a mass user migration to Linux. - Imagine all the 
office and home environments where Windows is used solely for the purpose 
of using Microsoft Word/Excel. They could all switch to Linux and many 
would probably do so if Word/Excel would exist under Linux... It would be 
very cost effective, too. - Oh well, one can dream. (-;

They are very angry at me right now for even doing this in the
first place, and I doubt the relationship will ever be back on
the keel it was originally, but since I work on Linux almost
exslusively now, I do not think it matters.

While it doesn't matter, I am sure things will improve over time.

Good Work, A++.

Thanks! (-:

Best regards,

 Anton

  At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
  To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
  trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these
  tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.
  
  Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
  NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his
 
  You probably meant Anton in the sentence above...
 
  tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing
  these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.
 
  The NTFS disk edit utility you were providing does quite a lot more since
  it is interactive. And my utility doesn't do everything I would like it to
  do yet but it does work so I wanted to push a release out of the door 
 ASAP.
  But it doesn't really matter. The NTFS disk editor is a relatively freely
  available utility as I found out recently, anyways. It is present on the
  Windows NT4 Service Pack 4 CD! It's not mentioned anywhere in the
  documentation but it sure is there among the service pack files. I managed
  to dig the out in our College computer office and it's now officially 
 mine.
  That has the advantage of not binding you to the license of only using it
  for repairing NTFS partitions... (-:
 
  Best regards,
 
  Anton
 
 
  --
  Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @)
  Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
  ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:43:54AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
 At 02:02 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
 On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
 I am noticeable impressed with your ability to address these issues.
 
 (-:
 
 Microsoft would be much happier I am certain with a pure Linux solution
 for this problem.  They have been incredibly tolerant in allowing
 
 Believe me, so would I! It's a long way to go to having a fully functional 
 ntfsck Linux utility, but we will get there eventually. And of course, the 
 actual driver is under heavy development both by Yuri Per of Acronis Ltd. 
 and myself at the moment (he is probably doing more than me as he does this 
 as part of a full time job...). In fact I am sitting on a very nice patch 
 for the driver at the moment but want to do some testing before I send it 
 off to Alan as it does quite a lot of fixing including a nasty race I found 
 staring at the code yesterday and several bug fixes and clean ups (or 
 rather rewrites of some functions almost) courtesy of Yuri. So the 
 importance of ntfsfix should become smaller and smaller as time goes on 
 until eventually we won't need it all. (-:
 
 me to help customers with trashed drives, but I am sure you are
 aware that they were only tolerating it since it was helping
 customers who use both NT and Linux, and even this was quite
 a stretch they did not have to go.   It's a statement that even in
 those cases where tey may be helping Linux, they put their customers
 needs first (this took some convincing on my part).
 
 Yes, I am aware of that. I very much doubt that Microsoft would be helping 
 Linux without an extremely good reason. I guess the only way part of 
 Microsoft might start working with/on Linux would be if the DOJ would split 
 the company up in two parts OS/Servers and Office apps. If that would 
 happen the Office part would have a growing market interest in a Linux 
 port, which at the moment is out of the question as Office is probably one 
 of the last barriers to a mass user migration to Linux. - Imagine all the 
 office and home environments where Windows is used solely for the purpose 
 of using Microsoft Word/Excel. They could all switch to Linux and many 
 would probably do so if Word/Excel would exist under Linux... It would be 
 very cost effective, too. - Oh well, one can dream. (-;
 
 They are very angry at me right now for even doing this in the
 first place, and I doubt the relationship will ever be back on
 the keel it was originally, but since I work on Linux almost
 exslusively now, I do not think it matters.
 
 While it doesn't matter, I am sure things will improve over time.
 
 Good Work, A++.
 
 Thanks! (-:
 
 Best regards,
 
  Anton
 
   At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
   To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that
   trash their NTFS partitions.  TRG will discontinue distribution of these
   tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version.
   
   Please do not email me for any more NT based repair tools for damaged
   NTFS partitions trashed by Linux.  Please contact Andre and use his
  
   You probably meant Anton in the sentence above...
  
   tools instead.  I will inform Microsoft I will no longer be providing
   these tools since Anton now has something that will do the job.
  
   The NTFS disk edit utility you were providing does quite a lot more since
   it is interactive. And my utility doesn't do everything I would like it to
   do yet but it does work so I wanted to push a release out of the door 
  ASAP.
   But it doesn't really matter. The NTFS disk editor is a relatively freely
   available utility as I found out recently, anyways. It is present on the
   Windows NT4 Service Pack 4 CD! It's not mentioned anywhere in the
   documentation but it sure is there among the service pack files. I managed
   to dig the out in our College computer office and it's now officially 
  mine.
   That has the advantage of not binding you to the license of only using it
   for repairing NTFS partitions... (-:
  
   Best regards,
  
   Anton
  


Hell will freeze, and the US will break off from the continental mass and 
sink into the oceans before I think MS will ever endorse Linux 
officially.  I could be wrong, but I doubt it.  

:-)

Jeff 

  
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov

At 02:42 04/02/2001, you wrote:
Hell will freeze, and the US will break off from the continental mass and
sink into the oceans before I think MS will ever endorse Linux
officially.  I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Well there is that. But why not think positive. You never know. Miracles 
sometimes do happen.

(-:

Anton


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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Matthew Fredrickson

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:51:43AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
 At 02:42 04/02/2001, you wrote:
 Hell will freeze, and the US will break off from the continental mass and
 sink into the oceans before I think MS will ever endorse Linux
 officially.  I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
 
 Well there is that. But why not think positive. You never know. Miracles 
 sometimes do happen.

And just as darkness covers the entire earth, a light comes from the
clouds.  A voice says, "Behold, this is my beloved son, hear him"

And then the people didn't need Microsoft anymore.

:-)

Matthew Fredrickson
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Michael B. Trausch

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
 
 And just as darkness covers the entire earth, a light comes from the
 clouds.  A voice says, "Behold, this is my beloved son, hear him"
 
 And then the people didn't need Microsoft anymore.
 
 :-)
 

Linux is the way, the truth, and the light, soon people will see that..

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