How to write to a NTFS filesystem
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About NTFS
New Technology File System (NTFS) is the standard file system for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista.
NTFS replaced Microsoft's previous FAT file system, used in MS-DOS and early versions of Windows. NTFS has several improvements over FAT such as improved support for metadata and the use of advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability, and disk space utilization plus additional extensions such as security access control lists and file system journaling. The exact specification is a trade secret.
About the NTFS-3g driver
The project team claim:
"The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver for Linux and other operating systems. It provides "safe" [note back-up all your important data first] and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the exception of full file ownership and access right support.
The purpose of the project is to develop, continuously quality test and support a trustable, feature rich 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 a hybrid, kernel/user space file system driver approach. Performance, reliability and feature richness per invested effort are being examined.
The driver is in STABLE status.
Reliability is the highest priority for the project. Great effort is devoted to careful engineering and permanent attention to ensure file and file system consistency in every conceivable situation."
Requirments
Freespire V2, CNR or Synaptic and Internet access
Installing and configuring the NTFS driver (not finished)
I will finish after the release of FS 2 beta.
1.Back-up all your important data first!
2. Start Synaptic.
3. Search for and install NTFS driver.
4. Reboot pc.
External links
Wikipedia NTFS-3G entry. This is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BeOS and Haiku. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver project page.
NTFS-3G project test methods and testimonials page.
Attribution
Portions of this text have been taken from Wikipedia.org and the NTFS-3G project, they are used in accordance to the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License and the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License respectively.
