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Written by Mario Emmenlauer   
Friday, 03 November 2006

About the Linux-NTFS project:

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 filesystem (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities (ntfsprogs) and a developer's library (libntfs) for other GPLed programs. We have achieved already a lot, with high quality results.

This Website is outdated

We are currently maintaining our documentation.

In the future you should not access these documents here but instead go to http://www.linux-ntfs.org/.


How to access NTFS from Linux

Choose one of the following two options:

1) Linux has an integrated kernel driver. It allows reading of files, and rewriting existing files. It does not support creation of new files or deletion of existing files. It works out of the box in most modern Linux distributions except Redhat/Fedora. For details on how to use it, see the "How to mount NTFS" wiki page. Click here if you are a Redhat/Fedora user.

2) ntfsprogs includes an improved driver, ntfsmount. Starting 2.0.0 release it provides full Read/Write access to NTFS volumes. See the ntfsmount page for more details.

Quick Info:

  • Newest available version of ntfsprogs is 2.0.0, released on 28.09.2007.
  • Go to the "Download"-Section to download the newest version of all tools and drivers.
  • Visit the Linux-NTFS Wiki for most end-user documentation (including the FAQ).

New CVS hosting

The CVS has moved to linux-ntfs.org. The new cvs server is faster and we have shell control to fix problems sooner.

Use :pserver:anonymous:cvs.linux-ntfs.org:/cvs/linux-ntfs as a cvsroot, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/cvs/vc/ for web browsing, and http://data.linux-ntfs.org/cvs-snapshots/ for snapshots.

We thank sourceforge.net and bkbits.net for the previous hostings, and Mario for the current one.

New Linux-NTFS Logo:

The logo contest is over, thanks for the many creative submissions. After a long and hard decision process, the Linux-NTFS Project has a new logo that you can see in the top-bar. Thanks to Elwin for his winning submission, and we'll get you the first Linux-NTFS T-Shirt ever. The second place goes to Tenki (his first logo from the left), and third place goes to Mariusz (his second logo from the left).

Thanks again to anyone participating in the logo contest, and congratulations to our winners! Anyone interested can still find all submitted logos on the logo contest page.

Join:

We are always looking for new project members! You want to contribute to the project, improve your programming skills, learn linux driver development, or write documentation in the wiki? You're more than welcome! Read more on the 'Join us'-page.