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Current news
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ntfsprogs now should ./configure and compile cleanly on SuSE as well as RedHat
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Linux.
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ntfsprogs now compiles and works on FreeBSD. Thanks to Christophe Grenier.
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ntfsprogs now compiles with DJGPP under DOS, too (only "make libs" target,
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which is sufficient to write DOS applications using libntfs). Thanks to
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Christophe Grenier.
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Merged the NTFS Gnome VFS module by Jan Kratochvil.
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Added new utilities: ntfsclone by Szakacsits Szabolcs, ntfscluster by Richard
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Russon, ntfsinfo by Matthew Fanto, ntfsls originally by Lode Leroy, modified
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by Anton Altaparmakov, ntfscat by Richard Russon.
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Library internal enhancements and API additions. Of particular note is the
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device io abstraction layer and the addition of the win32 device operations.
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(Note the win32 device operations are read only and incomplete but should
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allow running of simple read-only ntfs utilities under Cygwin.) Thanks to
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Lode Leroy for the win32 code.
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Older news
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Renamed ntfstools to ntfsprogs everywhere.
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Added new utility ntfslabel by Matthew Fanto. See man 8 ntfslabel for details.
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Added new utility ntfsundelete by Richard Russon. See man 8 ntfsundelete for
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more details.
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Added new utility ntfsresize by Szakacsits Szabolcs. See man 8 ntfsresize for
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details.
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The API has been fully reworked and the library mostly rewritten since the
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last release (1.6.0). It should now offer a much more solid and stable basis
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for development of software accessing NTFS volumes. All utilities have been
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ported to the new API.
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linux-ntfs should now compile and work on all architectures.
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Added two options to mkntfs. One to enable compression on the volume and one
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to disable content indexing. See man 8 mkntfs for details.
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Changed version numbers of mkntfs and ntfsfix to match linux-ntfs release.
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ntfsfix had two minor bugs fixed. This also should remove the compilation
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warnings in ntfsfix.c on 64-bit-pointer-size architectures.
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mkntfs now should be truly bug free.
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ntfs_mount syntax changed to accept a read-only flag.
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mkntfs now allows creation of small NTFS volumes (current minimum size is one
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mega byte). This allows placing NTFS on a floppy disk for example.
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mkntfs now correctly handles directories on volumes with large clusters.
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ntfsfix now works on Windows XP NTFS volumes (NTFS 3.1).
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Reenabled shared library generation and use.
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ntfsfix now has a man page, too. Donated by David Mart<72>nez Moreno.
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mkntfs now uses correct defaults for small partitions on devices with
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non-standard sector sizes.
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mkntfs now in sbin not bin and it got some bugs fixed.
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Gcc 2.96 or above is required to compile.
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Dropped ldm, ntfsdump_logfile and dumplog from linux-ntfs distribution. ldm will
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reappear in a different package as ldminfo (probably linux-ldm) while the dump
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tools are only useful to us developers to play with they don't actually do
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anything useful (and these remain in CVS for developer (ab)use).
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We now have mkntfs. Yey! And it even has a man page. So go read it. (-8
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Disable shared library building by default as it breaks on some systems. (No
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idea why. If any one can figure it out and tell me what the problem/fix is I
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would be thankful.)
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libntfs and hence ntfsfix still don't support attribute lists.
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Updated ntfsdump_logfile to really dump the whole logfile with all the current
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knowledge about the structures. Also added dumplog which does the same but
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operates on a file rather than a partition, i.e. it can operate on a live
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mounted NTFS partition under linux when the -o show_sys_files was used on mount.
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(Note this mount option first appeared in Linux kernel 2.4.4-ac18.)
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