fsck on NTFS drive

[Simon Tiplady]

I've got an old NTFS drive which I think has some errors and would benefit from a fsck before I move all the files off it and onto the freenas datasets.

fsck /dev/ada1s1 is reporting "fsck: Could not determine filesystem type"
and
fsck -t ntfs /dev/ada1s1 is giving "fsck: exec fsck_ntfs for /dev/ada1s1 in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory"

 

[Ericloewe]

I'd highly recommend using Windows' chkdsk to fix NTFS volumes.

NTFS has been read-only for a while now because it had a tendency to corrupt NTFS volumes. Yeah, reverse-engineering isn't pretty.

 

[Simon Tiplady]

I don't have any other towers, I've got an iMac, MacBookPro and a Windows laptop, not sure how I'm going to connect the sata drive to any of them?

 

[depasseg]

Is there an off-off-topic section?

Try this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001A4HAFS/?tag=ozlp-20

 

[cyberjock]

fsck isn't for NTFS anyway.. so yeah... use Windows.

 

[Ericloewe]

Is there an off-off-topic section? :)

Try this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001A4HAFS/?tag=ozlp-20

I prefer the simple cable or full enclosure types. I never did like the thought of a drive sitting on its connectors.

 

[anodos]

I'd highly recommend using Windows' chkdsk to fix NTFS volumes.

NTFS has been read-only for a while now because it had a tendency to corrupt NTFS volumes. Yeah, reverse-engineering isn't pretty.

Yeah, fschk will possibly fschk your drive. :D