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2 | INTRODUCTION |
3 | ============ |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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22 | http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-advanced/ |
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24 | News, support answers, problem submission instructions, support and discussion |
25 | forums, performance numbers and other information are available on the project |
26 | web site at |
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28 | http://www.tuxera.com/community/ |
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31 | QUICK INSTALLATION |
32 | ================== |
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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: |
36 | |
37 | ./configure |
38 | make |
39 | make install # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root. |
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41 | Please note that NTFS-3G doesn't require the FUSE user space package. |
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43 | Non-Linux: Please see |
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45 | http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ |
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47 | for OS specific installation and source packages. |
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50 | USAGE |
51 | ===== |
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53 | If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be |
54 | read-write mounted for everybody the following way as the root user |
55 | (unmount the volume if it was already mounted, and replace /dev/sda1 |
56 | and /mnt/windows, if needed): |
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58 | mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows |
59 | or |
60 | ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows |
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62 | Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples. |
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64 | You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by putting the below |
65 | line at the END(!) of the /etc/fstab file: |
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67 | /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 |
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