Welcome to the Linux-NTFS Wiki

The goals of the Linux-NTFS project are to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux kernel driver and by a user space driver (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities and a developer's library for other GPLed programs. We have already achieved a lot, with high quality results.

Our website is currently being updated, to reflect the progress in our software.

Many changes to the documentation need to be done, we are sorry if you experience old and/or broken links. If you would like to help or if you find major flaws in the documentation, please contact us at admin@linux-ntfs.org.

In case you need the old website, you can still find it here: http://old.linux-ntfs.org/

We just have released ntfsprogs 2.0.0 with full read/write support!

Get it from our downloads-page, or read more at How can I access NTFS?

Getting started - Please read this Section!

This project provides several ways to access NTFS volumes. First, there is the Linux kernel driver: It is fast and reliable when reading files, but it has very limited write support. Almost all Linux distributions (except RedHat/Fedora) already include the kernel driver. Second, there is the ntfsmount: It is user-space driver, compareable to the kernel driver concerning reliability, but include full write support since version 2.0.0. Third, is ntfsprogs, this is collection of tools for performing various operations on NTFS volumes like creating, resizing, cloning and so on.

In short:

kernel driver: fast, reliable, read-only. Most people already have it.
ntfsmount: fast, reliable, read/write, userspace.
ntfsprogs: various tools for managing ntfs, like mkntfs, ntfsresize and ntfsclone.

Documentation Pointers:

This wiki is mainly intended to provide end users with quick help. If you want to know what our utilities or the driver do, how to use them or how to build them, you have come to the right place.

Here are some good entry points to the documentation:

What is NTFS?
Start here: How can I access NTFS?
Downloads
HowTo documents.
The Linux-NTFS FAQ in several languages, might need some updates.
Current project status, and the more detailed kernel driver roadmap.
libntfs: NTFS library to access NTFS from your C/C++ programs.
TODO lists for some of our programs.
Contributed Software.

Other things you might find interesting are:

The web-site poll results.
The current project members.
How to get involved in the project.

Latest News:

ntfsprogs 2.0.0 released:

[2007-09-29 00:55] The long awaited 2.0.0 release is finally here! Highlights are that ntfsmount sports full read/write support, libntfs can read encrypted files and ntfsresize as well as all other tools support Windows Vista. Upgrade is strongly recommended. Read More >>

ntfsprogs 1.13.1 released:

[2006-06-21 02:25] Time for another release. Many bug fixes and enhancements so update is strongly recommended. Read More >>

ntfsprogs 1.13.0 released:

[2006-02-27 01:56] The long awaited release. Lots of enhancements and fixes across the board. See the changelog for details but a few notable changes are that mkntfs now creates NTFS 3.1 (Windows XP) volumes by default and that ntfsmount can deal with symbolic links and device files. Read More >>

full news listing >>

start.txt · Last modified: 2007/10/02 15:51 by cha0smaster

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