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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, OpenSolaris, QNX and Haiku. It provides
- safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000,
- Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 file systems.
-
- The purpose of the project is to develop, quality assurance 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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- Besides the common file system features, NTFS-3G has support for file
- ownership and permissions, POSIX ACLs, junction points, extended attributes
- and creating compressed files. Parameter files in the directory .NTFS-3G may
- be required to enable them, please get the instructions from
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- http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-advanced/
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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.tuxera.com/community/
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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 unpack the source tarball and 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.
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- Non-Linux: Please see
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- http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
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- 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 as the root user
- (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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- 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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