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Linux-NTFS
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==========
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The Linux-NTFS project aims to bring full support for the NTFS filesystem to
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the Linux operating system.
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Linux-NTFS is copyright (c) 2000-2005 Anton Altaparmakov.
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All of the contents of the Linux-NTFS project are free software, released under
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the GNU General Public License and you are welcome to redistribute them under
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certain conditions. All the libraries and utilities come with ABSOLUTELY NO
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WARRANTY; for details read the GNU General Public License to be found in the
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file COPYING. Note that while the GNU General Public License is copyrighted by
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the Free Software Foundation, the instances of code that it refers to (the
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Linux-NTFS project, including the ntfsprogs package containing the NTFS library
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(libntfs) and the NTFS utilities (ntfsprogs) and the Linux kernel NTFS driver
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are copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote them.
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The Linux-NTFS ntfsprogs package currently consists of the NTFS library
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(libntfs), the NTFS Gnome VFS module (libntfs-gnomevfs), and various utilities
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(ntfsprogs).
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The Linux-NTFS home page is at:
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http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
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The SourceForge.net Linux-NTFS project page is at:
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
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The latest Linux-NTFS source code is available from our CVS repositories which
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can be found on our SourceForge.net project page.
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If you would like to take part in the development of Linux-NTFS, you are
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invited to subscribe to the development mailing list,
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linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net. The easiest way to do this is to visit
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the list page on SourceForge at:
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-ntfs-dev
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If you would like to be kept up to date about new releases and other Linux-NTFS
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announcements, subscribe to the linux-ntfs-announce mailing list (very low
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volume). The easiest way to do this is to visit the list page on SourceForge
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at:
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-ntfs-announce
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Quick Installation
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==================
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If you obtained the source code from CVS all the autogenerated files will be
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missing. To generate them you will need the autoconf, automake, and libtool
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packages installed and you will need to run: ./autogen.sh
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If you obtained the source code from the tar ball or from a source package
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like the .src.rpm for example, in most cases it should be sufficient to do:
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./configure
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make
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make install <-- You usually need to be root for this one.
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The above will compile and install the NTFS library and utility programs into
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/usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin respectively. The man pages will be
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installed by default in /usr/local/man.
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For more detailed installation instructions, please read the file INSTALL.
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Note, if you want to enable the additional debugging checks in the code as well
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as the output of debugging information, which will be emitted to stdout, you
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need to specify the `--enable-debug' option to `configure'.
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NTFS library
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Provides common NTFS access functions to the ntfsprogs and other foreign
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open source applications. Note, that the library is still under development
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and a lot of functionality is not yet included.
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NTFS Gnome VFS module
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=====================
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The Gnome virtual filesystem provides universal access to diffent filesystems.
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This modules enables Gnome VFS clients to seamlessly utilize the NTFS library.
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For further details and examples of how to make use of the NTFS Gnome VFS
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module in practice see man 8 libntfs-gnomevfs.
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NTFS utilities
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The ntfsprogs will eventually include utilities for doing all required tasks
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to NTFS partitions. In general, just run a utility without any command line
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options to display the version number and usage syntax.
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The following utilities are so far implemented:
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NtfsFix - Attempt to fix an NTFS partition that has been damaged by the old
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Linux NTFS driver. Note that you should run it every time after you have used
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the old Linux NTFS driver to write to an NTFS partition to prevent massive data
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corruption from happening when Windows mounts the partition.
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IMPORTANT: Run this only *after* unmounting the partition in Linux but *before*
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rebooting into Windows NT/2000 or you *will* suffer! - You have been warned!
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See man 8 ntfsfix for details.
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mkntfs - Format a partition with the NTFS filesystem. See man 8 mkntfs for
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command line options.
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ntfslabel - Display/change the label of an NTFS partition. See man 8 ntfslabel
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for details.
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ntfsundelete - Recover deleted files from an NTFS volume. See man 8
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ntfsundelete for more details.
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ntfsresize - Resize NTFS volumes. See man 8 ntfsresize for details.
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ntfsclone - Efficiently create/restore an image of an NTFS partition. See
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man 8 ntfsclone for details.
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ntfscluster - Locate the owner of any given sector or cluster on an NTFS
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partition. See man 8 ntfscluster for details.
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ntfsinfo - Show some information about an NTFS partition or one of the files
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or directories within it. See man 8 ntfsinfo for details.
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ntfsls - List information about files in a directory residing on an NTFS
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partition. See man 8 ntfsls for details.
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ntfscat - Concatenate files and print their contents on the standard output.
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ntfscp - Overwrite files on an NTFS partition.
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ntfsmount - Mount an NTFS partition from user-space using libntfs and FUSE.
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