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MOUNT_NTFS(8)                            BSD System Manager's Manual                           MOUNT_NTFS(8)

NAME
     mount_ntfs -- mount an NTFS file system

SYNOPSIS
     mount_ntfs [-s] [-o options] special node

DESCRIPTION
     The mount_ntfs command attaches the NTFS file system residing on the device special to the global file
     system namespace at the location indicated by node.  This command is normally executed by mount(8) at
     boot time, but can be used by any user to mount an NTFS file system on any directory that they own
     (provided, of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that contains the file system).

     The options are as follows:

     -s      Mount the volume using case sensitive semantics.  This means that you can create files that
             have names that only differ in case such as for example "foo" and "Foo".  Without this option
             the volume is mounted using case insensitive semantics in which case if you create a file with
             name "foo" you then cannot create a file named "Foo" or rather if you do create a file named
             "Foo" it would overwrite the existing file "foo".

     -o      Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separated string of options.  See the
             mount(8) man page for possible options and their meanings.

SEE ALSO
     mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)

HISTORY
     This NTFS implementation first appeared in Mac OS X 10.5.

AUTHORS
     This NTFS implementation was written by Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>.

Mac OS X                                     September 12, 2008                                     Mac OS X