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I bought Microsoft NTFS for Linux by Paragon Software for a linux version of chkdsk. It also includes "ufsd" a somewhat redundant driver for reading and writing ntfs. (I already had ntfs-3g) What are the differences between ufsd and ntfs-3g?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

I wonder even what's point of buying it? And isn't NTFS 3g is open source version created by community by reverse engineering ntfs

EDIT: if anyone need paragon tools for checking NTFS I can share them easily I extracted them from their apk which they were selling on Google play and there tools for almost any architecture x86,MIPS,arm

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

a linux version of chkdsk

Maybe so they can check their NTFS drives without rebooting to Windows. If it checks Linux file systems, we have fsck for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago
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