ntfsprogs
| Stable release | 2.0.0
/ September 29, 2007 |
|---|---|
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | File system utilities |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsprogs at the Wayback Machine (archived May 22, 2008) |
Ntfsprogs is a collection of free Unix utilities for managing the NTFS filesystem used by the Windows NT operating system (since version 3.1) on a hard disk 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 Tuxera announced that Ntfsprogs project was merged with NTFS-3G.[3]
Included programs
- mkntfs - Create an NTFS volume on a partition
- ntfscat - Print a file on the standard output
- ntfsclone - Efficiently backup a volume at the sector level
- ntfscluster - Given a cluster, or sector, find the file
- ntfsfix - Forces Windows to check NTFS at boot time
- ntfsinfo - Dump a file's attributes, completely
- ntfslabel - Display or set a volume's label
- ntfslib - Move all the common code into a shared library
- ntfsls - List directory contents
- ntfsresize - Resize an NTFS volume
- ntfsundelete - Find files that have been deleted and recover them
- ntfswipe - Write zeros over the unused parts of the disk
- ntfsdefrag - Defragment files, directories and the MFT
- ntfsck - Perform consistency checks on a volume
- ntfsdiskedit - Walk the tree of NTFS ondisk structures (and alter them)
- nttools - Command-line tools to view/change an offline NTFS volume, e.g. ntfscp, ntfsgrep, ntfstouch, ntfsrm, ntfsrmdir, ntfsmkdir.
Other programs are included, but are very basic in functionality and/or intended for developers.
See also
References
- ^ Shilliday, Barry (2007-04-17), "Running other operating systems alongside Linux", Personal Computer World, retrieved 2008-05-29
- ^ Mathes, Steven (2007-02-01), "The Interoperability Power of Linux-NTFS Tools", Linux Journal, retrieved 2008-05-29
- ^ Release: NTFS-3G + NTFSPROGS 2011.4.12
- Shilliday, Barry (2006-12-06), "It's all write now: NTFS filesystem under Linux", Personal Computer World, retrieved 2008-05-29
- Smith, Roderick (2008-03-30), "Communicating With the Other Half: NTFS Support in Linux", Linux Magazine, retrieved 2008-05-29
External links
- ntfsprogs homepage at the Wayback Machine (archived May 22, 2008)