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)
55 There are also a few make targets for building parts :
56 make libntfs : only build the libntfs-3g library
57 make libs : only build libntfs-3g (and libfuse-lite, if relevant)
58 make drivers : only build drivers and libraries, without ntfsprogs
59 make ntfsprogs : only build ntfsprogs and libntfs-3g, without drivers
63 http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
65 for known OS specific installation and source packages, but generally
66 the same procedures apply.
71 If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be
72 read-write mounted for everybody the following way as the root user
73 (unmount the volume if it was already mounted, and replace /dev/sda1
74 and /mnt/windows, if needed):
76 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
78 ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
80 Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples.
82 You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by putting the below
83 line at the END(!) of the /etc/fstab file:
85 /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
88 TESTING WITHOUT INSTALLING
89 =========================
91 Newer versions of ntfs-3g can be tested without installing anything and
92 without disturbing an existing installation. Just configure and make as
93 shown previously. This will create the scripts ntfs-3g and lowntfs-3g
94 in the src directory, which you may activate for testing :
100 src/ntfs-3g [-o mount-options] /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
102 And, to end the test, unmount the usual way :
109 The ntfsprogs includes utilities for doing all required tasks to NTFS
110 partitions. In general, just run a utility without any command line
111 options to display the version number and usage syntax.
113 The following utilities are so far implemented:
115 ntfsfix - Attempt to fix an NTFS partition and force Windows to check NTFS.
117 mkntfs - Format a partition with the NTFS filesystem. See man 8 mkntfs for
118 command line options.
120 ntfslabel - Display/change the label of an NTFS partition. See man 8 ntfslabel
123 ntfsundelete - Recover deleted files from an NTFS volume. See man 8
124 ntfsundelete for more details.
126 ntfsresize - Resize NTFS volumes. See man 8 ntfsresize for details.
128 ntfsclone - Efficiently create/restore an image of an NTFS partition. See
129 man 8 ntfsclone for details.
131 ntfscluster - Locate the owner of any given sector or cluster on an NTFS
132 partition. See man 8 ntfscluster for details.
134 ntfsinfo - Show some information about an NTFS partition or one of the files
135 or directories within it. See man 8 ntfsinfo for details.
137 ntfsls - List information about files in a directory residing on an NTFS
138 partition. See man 8 ntfsls for details.
140 ntfscat - Concatenate files and print their contents on the standard output.
142 ntfscp - Overwrite files on an NTFS partition.