Does fsck.ntfs exist?

[orangep]

Hello. I have four external USB disk drives, three with ext3 or ext4 file systems, and one with NTFS.
The ext3 and ext4 drives work flawlessly.

I added the ntfs drive to /etc/fstab, so that it will automount at
boot-up, thus:
UUID=40284A46284A3AE4 /d2a ntfs defaults 0 1

I get strange error messages like:
fsck.ntfs not found

Indeed, there is no /sbin/fsck.ntfs. They exist for lots of other
things, including msdos and vfat, but no ntfs. Does it exist?

I just did the big system upgrade, and all appropriate packages are installed and up-to-date.

[sudodus]

No I don't think so. NTFS should be maintained with chkdsk booted from Windows, or

chkdsk /f to repair the file system.

[Mark Phelps]

There is ntfsfix -- but it only repairs trivial NTFS problems.

Unfortunately, to repair any major NTFS problems, you still need MS Windows.

[oldfred]

Only the root file system should be 1. So change your fstab entry for your NTFS mount to 0. Then periodically use Windows chkdsk to repair the NTFS partition(s).

man fstab


The sixth field (fs_passno).
This field is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order
in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root
filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other
filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a
drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different
drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism
available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or
zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the
filesystem does not need to be checked.

[orangep]

Ah so. Thanks for the tips. Have a good day now.