This is a technological preview of NTFS user-space commandline tools for OS/2.

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	!!!!!!!!!!!!! Attention !!!!!!!!!!!!
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	While this is a port from linus sources, which are tested on many 
	linux computers (millions lemings can't be wrong :) ), it may 
	contain (contaned) bugs.
	Use it on your own risk.
	This tools utilized direct low-level access to hard disk.
	Don't this tools on computers, contain sensitive data on disks,
	even on non-NTFS drives!
	In any case be sure, you have a backup of all data, before using this
	tools.
	

With this tools you can:
- scan NTFS clasters
- copy files from/to NTFS volume
- move/delete files accross NTFS volume
- clone NTFS volume
- undelete files on NTFS volume
- create/format NTFS volume in existing disk partiton
- compare NTFS volumes, etc

	Requirements
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	ECS (any version), OS/2 ACP/MCP, ACP2/MCP2, OS/2 4.0 Merlin with fix 13 
or later. Due to luck of some important futures, OS/2 Warp 3.0 dosn't supported
and never been.

	Known limitations
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	1. Access via drive letter doesn't supported. Virtualized partion
names used instead (for example /dev/hda3 - disk 1 primary partiton 3).

Direct access to NTFS volume via drive letter will be possible only when 
NTFS.IFS driver installed. Otherwise NTFS FS unhandled by OS/2 and fall down
to FAT.IFS builtin into OS/2 kernel. This limit drive direct access to first 
2Gb, which case is not, what we wish.

	2. Only primary NTFS partitons supported ATM. This will be changed in
next builds.

	3. Multi-partition and multi-disk NTFS volumes doesn't supported.

	4. Maximum NTFS volume size is limited now to OS/2 maximum partion size
(near 2Tb), while utils itself is capable to support huge NTFS volumes.

	5. This tools doesn't include sharing multiprocessing protection
mechanizms yet, so DON'T fulfill several operation simultaniously:
for example coping files from NTFS volume and delete files on the same NTFS 
volume. In best case NTFS volume become unstable, or you may loose all data on 
the whole NTFS volume in worse case.
	
	6. Be carefull with external USB hdd drives. Access to detached disk 
may cause system trap in LVM.

	7. Current build is limited to read only access mode. If you wish to
test write to NTFS volume, please let me know.

Best regards
Dmitry Froloff
froloff@os2.ru