NTFS-3G

The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, NetBSD, OpenIndiana, QNX and Haiku. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 NTFS 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. Besides the common file system features, NTFS-3G has support for file ownership and permissions, POSIX ACLs, junction points, extended attributes and creating internally compressed files (parameter files in the directory .NTFS-3G may be required to enable them). The new compressed file formats available in Windows 10 can also be read through a plugin. Most distributions have an up-to-date NTFS-3G package ready for use, and the recommended way is to install it. If you need some specific customization, you can compile and install from the released source code. Make sure you have the basic development tools and the kernel includes the FUSE kernel module. Then unpack the source tarball and type: ./configure make make install or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root. Please note that NTFS-3G doesn't require the FUSE user space package any more. Below are a few specific options to ./configure : --disable-ntfsprogs : do not build the ntfsprogs tools, --enable-extras : build more ntfsprogs tools, --disable-plugins : disable support for plugins --enable-posix-acls : enable support for Posix ACLs --enable-xattr-mappings : enable system extended attributes mappings --with-fuse=external : use external fuse (overriding Linux default) You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by putting the below line at the END(!) of the /etc/fstab file: Newer versions of ntfs-3g can be tested without installing anything and without disturbing an existing installation. Just configure and make as shown previously. This will create the scripts ntfs-3g and lowntfs-3g in the src directory, which you may activate for testing: The ntfsprogs directory includes utilities for doing all required tasks to NTFS partitions. In general, just run a utility without any command line options to display the version number and usage syntax. mkntfs - Format a partition with the NTFS filesystem. See man 8 mkntfs for command line options. ntfsundelete - Recover deleted files from an NTFS volume. See man 8 ntfsundelete for more details. ntfsrecover - Recover updates committed by Windows but interrupted before being synced. ntfscat - Concatenate files and print their contents on the standard output.