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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.

This project provides several ways to access and modify 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 a user-space driver comparable to the kernel driver concerning reliability, but includes full write support since version 2.0.0. Third there are our ntfsprogs, which are a 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, namely mkntfs, ntfsresize, ntfsclone, ntfsfix, ntfsundelete, ntfswipe and ntfsdecrypt.

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.

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