ntfsrecover -s $dev1 -o /mnt/recovered_cache/
The tricky part was the "hold" itself. Some drives needed a literal hardware hold—jumpers set to prevent writes—or a software hold: flags in the file system and a tiny watchdog daemon that prevented automated utilities from running destructive maintenance. She built both: a hardware pin on the NTFS enclosure labeled 130, and a cron job that refused any fsck without explicit authorization. The exFAT got a companion script that trapped attempts to reformat it and instead exported a read-only snapshot. prepare exfat ntfs drives 130 hold to keep existing cache
Get-ChildItem -Path D:\Cache -Recurse | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum use a 16KB cluster size
(Master Boot Record); GPT partitions are generally not supported for these workflows. Cluster Size : For NTFS, use a 16KB cluster size prepare exfat ntfs drives 130 hold to keep existing cache