Oct 02, 2013 Mac OS X has always been able to read NTFS drives, but tucked away in Mac OS X is a hidden option to enable write support to drives formatted as NTFS (NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is a proprietary file system format for Microsoft Windows).
NTFS-3G is a stable, full-featured, read-write NTFS driver for Linux, Android, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 NTFS file systems. A alternative, called Tuxera NTFS is available for. The release notes and the software changes can be found on the page. Subscribe for new release notifications. Download The latest stable version is, released on March 28, 2017. Availability: (fastest) Installation Linux: Most distributions include and use NTFS-3G by default.
Please use that one unless it’s an. If you wish to install NTFS-3G from the source code then make sure you have installed the basic development tools (gcc compiler, libc-dev libraries). Then type:./configure make make install # or ' sudo make install' if you aren't root Non-Linux: Please see the OS specific installation and source packages above. Usage If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be mounted in read-write mode for everybody as follows.
Unmount the volume if it had already been mounted, replace /dev/sda1 and /mnt/windows, if needed. Mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows Please see the for more options and examples. You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by adding the following line to the end of the /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0. The major and important driver changes are listed below. Stable releases are GREEN, releases for testing are RED.
While the NTFS-3G project globally aims at providing a stable NTFS driver for several operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc., the advanced branch specifically aims at developing, maturing, and releasing features to get user feedback before they are integrated into the main branch. The advanced releases are designed as add-ons to the latest stable release, so they benefit from all the improvements and fixes integrated in the main branch. This facilitates the subsequent integration of newer features both for the developer and the user.
The documentation on the features which were developed as part of former advanced versions is available here, and updated to reflect the latest versions:. File ownership and permissions: the of files, implemented according to POSIX rules, are interoperable with Windows.
POSIX ACLs: the ACLs, are an extension to, as defined in a POSIX draft. Junction points: the created by Windows are seen as symbolic links. Access to NTFS Internal data: a few useful internal data are mapped to for easier access. Compression: are supported. Tools for managing ownership, permissions and ACLs: checks the integrity of ownership, permissions and ACL, gives help to configure ownership. Downloads The available packages are extensions to recent stable versions. They pass, they have been tested on top of i386 and x8664 (small-endian) and M68K (big-endian) CPUs, and their interoperability has been tested against Windows (XP and later versions.) Nevertheless problems may have crept in, so you should backup your valuable data regularly.
OpenIndiana users: please see 2015.3.14AR.2 release source tarball Fedora 21 RPM for i386 Fedora 21 RPM for x8664 Executable for Knoppix 5.1.1 2015.3.14AR.1 release source tarball Fedora 21 RPM for i386 Fedora 21 RPM for x8664 Executable for Knoppix 5.1.1 Global Changelog Miscellaneous tools for NTFS md5 for integrity checks To install these versions, for a base version. To benefit from some features, you may have to define options at mount time and insert configuration files in the directory.NTFS-3G of the NTFS partition. See the relevant pages for details. The version for Knoppix is a prelinked one which only uses legacy interfaces, so that it can be run on most Linux systems without being installed.