Linux NTFS

Partitions

Saving partition table data and first sectors, change the table:

$ sfdisk -d /dev/sda >sda.pt
$ dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.mbr bs=512 count=1
$ fdisk /dev/sda

NTFSResize

Change the size of an existing NTFS partition

$ fdisk -l /dev/sda                               # List information on partitions on /dev/sda
$ ntfsresize --info /dev/sda1
$ ntfsresize --no-action --size 20152M /dev/sda1  # Testing
$ ntfsresize --no-action --size 20151M /dev/sda1  # Testing
$ ntfsresize --size 20151M /dev/sda1
$ ntfsresize --size 20000M /dev/sda1

NTFSClone

Backup an NTFS partition to a file

$ ntfsclone --save-image -o - /dev/sda1 | gzip -c > backup-20090908.img.gz