diff --git a/README b/README index b4a1c73f..ecc1943b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ INTRODUCTION ============ The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver -for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, and Haiku. It provides safe and fast -handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows -Vista file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, and -full file ownership and permission support is also coming along fast. +for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Solaris and Haiku. It provides safe and +fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows +Vista, and Windows Server 2008 file systems. The purpose of the project is to develop, continuously quality test and support a trustable, featureful and high performance solution for hardware @@ -15,16 +14,16 @@ with NTFS. Besides this practical goal, the project also aims to explore the limits of the hybrid, kernel/user space filesystem driver approach, performance, reliability and feature richness per invested effort wise. -The driver is in STABLE status. The test methods, the test suites used and -testimonials can be found on +The driver is in STABLE status. The test methods, the test suites used +can be found at - http://www.ntfs-3g.org/quality.html + http://ntfs-3g.org/quality.html News, support answers, problem submission instructions, support and discussion forums, performance numbers and other information are available on the project web site at - http://www.ntfs-3g.org + http://ntfs-3g.org QUICK INSTALLATION @@ -47,21 +46,14 @@ USAGE ===== If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be -read-write mounted for everybody the following way (unmount the volume if -it was already mounted, and replace /dev/sda1 and /mnt/windows, if needed): +read-write mounted for everybody the following way as the root user +(unmount the volume if it was already mounted, and replace /dev/sda1 +and /mnt/windows, if needed): mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows or ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows -If your Operating System vendor didn't setup your language specific settings -then you may also need to set the 'locale' mount option to make all filenames -with national characters visible. Replace the below en_US.UTF-8 with the -appropriate setting. You can find more information about his topic at -http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale - - mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o locale=en_US.UTF-8 - Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples. You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by putting the below