ntfsprogs

Ntfsprogs is a collection of free Unix utilities for managing the NTFS filesystem used by Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 on a harddisk partition. 'ntfsprogs' was the first stable method of writing to NTFS partitions in Linux.^[1]

All NTFS versions are supported, used by 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. ntfsprogs remains a popular way of interacting with NTFS partitions and is included by most Linux distributions^[2] and on Live CDs. There are also versions that have been compiled for Windows.

On April 12, 2011 it was announced that Ntfsprogs project was merged with NTFS-3G.^[3]

Included programs

• ntfsresize, used for non-destructively resizing a NTFS Partition
• ntfsclone, used for making uncompressed, but space-efficient clones of NTFS Partitions. It does not support image verification.
• mkntfs, used for creating NTFS partitions
• ntfsmount, for mounting using FUSE
• ntfsfix, schedules a Windows check of a file system on the next boot
• ntfsundelete, undeletes a file
• ntfsdecrypt, decrypts EFS
• ntfsck, performs a consistency check on the specified volume. (Note that development appears to be suspended.^[4])

Other programs are included, but are very basic in functionality, and/or intended for developers.

References

• Shilliday, Barry (2006-12-06), "It's all write now: NTFS filesystem under Linux", Personal Computer World, http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2170805/hands-write, retrieved 2008-05-29 
• Smith, Roderick (2008-03-30), "Communicating With the Other Half: NTFS Support in Linux", Linux Magazine, http://linux-mag.com/id/5523, retrieved 2008-05-29 

See also

• NTFS-3G
• e2fsprogs
• reiserfsprogs

External links

• ntfsprogs homepage at the Wayback Machine (archived May 22, 2008)