5 The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver
6 for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX and Haiku. It provides
7 safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000,
8 Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 file systems.
10 The purpose of the project is to develop, quality assurance and support a
11 trustable, featureful and high performance solution for hardware platforms
12 and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate with NTFS.
13 Besides this practical goal, the project also aims to explore the limits
14 of the hybrid, kernel/user space filesystem driver approach, performance,
15 reliability and feature richness per invested effort wise.
17 Besides the common file system features, NTFS-3G has support for file
18 ownership and permissions, POSIX ACLs, junction points, extended attributes
19 and creating compressed files. Parameter files in the directory .NTFS-3G may
20 be required to enable them, please get the instructions from
22 http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-advanced/
24 News, support answers, problem submission instructions, support and discussion
25 forums, performance numbers and other information are available on the project
28 http://www.tuxera.com/community/
33 All the NTFS related components : the file system drivers, the ntfsprogs
34 utilities and the shared library libntfs-3g are distributed under the terms
35 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
36 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
37 version. See the included file COPYING.
39 The fuse-lite library is distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPLv2.
40 See the included file COPYING.LIB.
45 Linux: Make sure you have the basic development tools and the kernel includes
46 the FUSE kernel module. Then unpack the source tarball and type:
50 make install # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root.
52 Please note that NTFS-3G doesn't require the FUSE user space package any
55 The list of options for building specific configurations is displayed by
60 Below are a few specific options to ./configure :
61 --disable-ntfsprogs : do not build the ntfsprogs tools,
62 --enable-posix-acls : enable support for Posix ACLs
63 --enable-xattr-mappings : enable system extended attributes mappings
64 --with-fuse=external : use external fuse (overriding Linux default)
66 There are also a few make targets for building parts :
67 make libntfs : only build the libntfs-3g library
68 make libs : only build libntfs-3g (and libfuse-lite, if relevant)
69 make drivers : only build drivers and libraries, without ntfsprogs
70 make ntfsprogs : only build ntfsprogs and libntfs-3g, without drivers
74 http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
76 for known OS specific installation and source packages, but generally
77 the same procedures apply.
82 If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be
83 read-write mounted for everybody the following way as the root user
84 (unmount the volume if it was already mounted, and replace /dev/sda1
85 and /mnt/windows, if needed):
87 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
89 ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
91 Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples.
93 You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by putting the below
94 line at the END(!) of the /etc/fstab file:
96 /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
99 TESTING WITHOUT INSTALLING
100 =========================
102 Newer versions of ntfs-3g can be tested without installing anything and
103 without disturbing an existing installation. Just configure and make as
104 shown previously. This will create the scripts ntfs-3g and lowntfs-3g
105 in the src directory, which you may activate for testing :
111 src/ntfs-3g [-o mount-options] /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
113 And, to end the test, unmount the usual way :
120 The ntfsprogs includes utilities for doing all required tasks to NTFS
121 partitions. In general, just run a utility without any command line
122 options to display the version number and usage syntax.
124 The following utilities are so far implemented:
126 ntfsfix - Attempt to fix an NTFS partition and force Windows to check NTFS.
128 mkntfs - Format a partition with the NTFS filesystem. See man 8 mkntfs for
129 command line options.
131 ntfslabel - Display/change the label of an NTFS partition. See man 8 ntfslabel
134 ntfsundelete - Recover deleted files from an NTFS volume. See man 8
135 ntfsundelete for more details.
137 ntfsresize - Resize NTFS volumes. See man 8 ntfsresize for details.
139 ntfsclone - Efficiently create/restore an image of an NTFS partition. See
140 man 8 ntfsclone for details.
142 ntfscluster - Locate the owner of any given sector or cluster on an NTFS
143 partition. See man 8 ntfscluster for details.
145 ntfsinfo - Show some information about an NTFS partition or one of the files
146 or directories within it. See man 8 ntfsinfo for details.
148 ntfsls - List information about files in a directory residing on an NTFS
149 partition. See man 8 ntfsls for details.
151 ntfscat - Concatenate files and print their contents on the standard output.
153 ntfscp - Overwrite files on an NTFS partition.