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/
34 Linux: Make sure you have the basic development tools and the kernel includes
35 the FUSE kernel module. Then unpack the source tarball and type:
39 make install # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root.
41 Please note that NTFS-3G doesn't require the FUSE user space package any
44 The list of options for building specific configurations is displayed by
49 Below are a few specific options to ./configure :
50 --disable-ntfsprogs : do not build the ntfsprogs tools,
51 --enable-posix-acls : enable support for Posix ACLs
52 --enable-xattr-mappings : enable system extended attributes mappings
53 --with-fuse=external : use external fuse (overriding Linux default)
57 http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
59 for known OS specific installation and source packages, but generally
60 the same procedures apply.
65 If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be
66 read-write mounted for everybody the following way as the root user
67 (unmount the volume if it was already mounted, and replace /dev/sda1
68 and /mnt/windows, if needed):
70 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
72 ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
74 Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples.
76 You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by putting the below
77 line at the END(!) of the /etc/fstab file:
79 /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
82 TESTING WITHOUT INSTALLING
83 =========================
85 Newer versions of ntfs-3g can be tested without installing anything and
86 without disturbing an existing installation. Just configure and make as
87 shown previously. This will create the scripts ntfs-3g and lowntfs-3g
88 in the src directory, which you may activate for testing :
94 src/ntfs-3g [-o mount-options] /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
96 And, to end the test, unmount the usual way :
103 The ntfsprogs includes utilities for doing all required tasks to NTFS
104 partitions. In general, just run a utility without any command line
105 options to display the version number and usage syntax.
107 The following utilities are so far implemented:
109 ntfsfix - Attempt to fix an NTFS partition and force Windows to check NTFS.
111 mkntfs - Format a partition with the NTFS filesystem. See man 8 mkntfs for
112 command line options.
114 ntfslabel - Display/change the label of an NTFS partition. See man 8 ntfslabel
117 ntfsundelete - Recover deleted files from an NTFS volume. See man 8
118 ntfsundelete for more details.
120 ntfsresize - Resize NTFS volumes. See man 8 ntfsresize for details.
122 ntfsclone - Efficiently create/restore an image of an NTFS partition. See
123 man 8 ntfsclone for details.
125 ntfscluster - Locate the owner of any given sector or cluster on an NTFS
126 partition. See man 8 ntfscluster for details.
128 ntfsinfo - Show some information about an NTFS partition or one of the files
129 or directories within it. See man 8 ntfsinfo for details.
131 ntfsls - List information about files in a directory residing on an NTFS
132 partition. See man 8 ntfsls for details.
134 ntfscat - Concatenate files and print their contents on the standard output.
136 ntfscp - Overwrite files on an NTFS partition.