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- INTRODUCTION
- ============
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- The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver
- for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, and Haiku. It provides safe and fast
- handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows
- Vista file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, and
- full file ownership and permission support is also coming along fast.
-
- The purpose of the project is to develop, continuously quality test and
- support a trustable, featureful and high performance solution for hardware
- platforms and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate
- with NTFS. Besides this practical goal, the project also aims to explore
- the limits of the hybrid, kernel/user space filesystem driver approach,
- performance, reliability and feature richness per invested effort wise.
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- The driver is in STABLE status. The test methods, the test suites used and
- testimonials can be found on
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- http://www.ntfs-3g.org/quality.html
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- News, support answers, problem submission instructions, support and discussion
- forums, performance numbers and other information are available on the project
- web site at
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- http://www.ntfs-3g.org
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- QUICK INSTALLATION
- ==================
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- Linux: Make sure you have the basic development tools and the kernel includes
- the FUSE kernel module. Then type:
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- ./configure
- make
- make install # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root.
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- Please note that NTFS-3G doesn't require the FUSE user space package anymore.
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- Non-Linux: Please see the NTFS-3G web page for OS specific installation and
- source packages.
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- USAGE
- =====
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- If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be
- read-write mounted for everybody the following way (unmount the volume if
- it was already mounted, and replace /dev/sda1 and /mnt/windows, if needed):
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- mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
- or
- ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
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- If your Operating System vendor didn't setup your language specific settings
- then you may also need to set the 'locale' mount option to make all filenames
- with national characters visible. Replace the below en_US.UTF-8 with the
- appropriate setting. You can find more information about his topic at
- http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale
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- mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o locale=en_US.UTF-8
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- Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples.
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- You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by putting the below
- line at the __END__ of the /etc/fstab file:
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- /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
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