diff --git a/ntfsprogs/ntfsclone.8.in b/ntfsprogs/ntfsclone.8.in
index a665a893..09e24f97 100644
--- a/ntfsprogs/ntfsclone.8.in
+++ b/ntfsprogs/ntfsclone.8.in
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ of view.
 
 At present the most efficient way, both speed and space\-wise, to
 compress and uncompress large sparse files by common tools
-is using
+would be using
 .BR tar (1)
 with the options
 .B \-S
@@ -93,7 +93,11 @@ writing large amount of zeros to the disk needlessly. But since
 can't create an archive from the standard input, you can't do this
 in\-place by just reading
 .BR ntfsclone
-standard output.
+standard output. Even more sadly, using this \-S option results 
+serious data loss since the end of 2004 and the GNU
+.BR tar
+maintainers don't care about releasing fixed versions until the
+present day.
 .SS The Special Image Format
 It's also possible, actually it's recommended, to save an NTFS filesystem
 to a special image format.
@@ -129,7 +133,7 @@ mountable. In this case all non\-metadata file content will be lost and
 reading them back will result always zeros.
 
 The metadata\-only image can be compressed very
-well, usually to not more than 1\-3 MB thus it's relatively easy to transfer
+well, usually to not more than 1\-8 MB thus it's easy to transfer
 for investigation, troubleshooting.
 
 In this mode of ntfsclone,
@@ -212,25 +216,31 @@ Show a list of options with a brief description of each one.
 .SH EXIT CODES
 The exit code is 0 on success, non\-zero otherwise.
 .SH EXAMPLES
-Save an NTFS to a file in the special image format
+Clone NTFS on /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdc1:
+.RS
+.sp
+.B ntfsclone \-\-overwrite /dev/hdc1 /dev/hda1
+.sp
+.RE
+Save an NTFS to a file in the special image format:
 .RS
 .sp
 .B ntfsclone \-\-save\-image \-\-output backup.img /dev/hda1
 .sp
 .RE
-Restore an NTFS from a special image file to its original partition
+Restore an NTFS from a special image file to its original partition:
 .RS
 .sp
 .B ntfsclone \-\-restore\-image \-\-overwrite /dev/hda1 backup.img
 .sp
 .RE
-Save an NTFS into a compressed image.
+Save an NTFS into a compressed image file:
 .RS
 .sp
 .B ntfsclone \-\-save\-image \-o \- /dev/hda1 | gzip \-c > backup.img.gz
 .sp
 .RE
-Restore an NTFS volume from a compressed image file
+Restore an NTFS volume from a compressed image file:
 .RS
 .sp
 .B gunzip \-c backup.img.gz | \\\\
@@ -238,7 +248,8 @@ Restore an NTFS volume from a compressed image file
 .B ntfsclone \-\-restore\-image \-\-overwrite /dev/hda1 \-
 .sp
 .RE
-Backup an NTFS volume to a remote host, using ssh.
+Backup an NTFS volume to a remote host, using ssh. Please note, that 
+ssh may ask for a password!
 .RS
 .sp
 .B ntfsclone \-\-save\-image \-\-output \- /dev/hda1 | \\\\
@@ -246,7 +257,8 @@ Backup an NTFS volume to a remote host, using ssh.
 .B gzip \-c | ssh host 'cat > backup.img.gz'
 .sp
 .RE
-Restore an NTFS volume from a remote host via ssh.
+Restore an NTFS volume from a remote host via ssh. Please note, that 
+ssh may ask for a password!
 .RS
 .sp
 .B ssh host 'cat backup.img.gz' | gunzip \-c | \\\\
@@ -254,7 +266,7 @@ Restore an NTFS volume from a remote host via ssh.
 .B ntfsclone \-\-restore\-image \-\-overwrite /dev/hda1 \-
 .sp
 .RE
-Stream an image from a web server and restore it to a partition
+Stream an image file from a web server and restore it to a partition:
 .RS
 .sp
 .B wget \-qO \- http://server/backup.img | \\\\
@@ -262,18 +274,28 @@ Stream an image from a web server and restore it to a partition
 .B ntfsclone \-\-restore\-image \-\-overwrite /dev/hda1 \-
 .sp
 .RE
-Clone an NTFS volume to a non\-existent file
+Clone an NTFS volume to a non\-existent file:
 .RS
 .sp
 .B ntfsclone \-\-output ntfs\-clone.img /dev/hda1
 .sp
 .RE
-Pack NTFS metadata for NTFS experts
+Pack NTFS metadata for NTFS experts. Please note that bzip2 runs
+very long but results usually at least 10 times smaller archives 
+than gzip.
 .RS
 .sp
 .B ntfsclone \-\-metadata \-\-output ntfsmeta.img /dev/hda1
 .br
-.B tar \-cjSf ntfsmeta.img.tar.bz2 ntfsmeta.img
+.B bzip2 ntfsmeta.img
+.sp
+.RE
+Unpacking NTFS metadata into a sparse file:
+.RS
+.sp
+.B bunzip2 \-c ntfsmeta.img.bz2 | \\\\
+.br
+.B cp \-\-sparse=always /proc/self/fd/0 ntfsmeta.img
 .sp
 .RE
 .SH KNOWN ISSUES
@@ -281,7 +303,6 @@ There are no known problems with
 .BR ntfsclone .
 If you think you have found a problem then please send an email describing it
 to the development team:
-.br
 .nh
 linux\-ntfs\-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
 .hy