Ntfsprogs

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Written in C Type File system utilities		Operating system Unix-like License GNU GPL
Stable release 2.0.0 / September 29, 2007 (2007-09-29) 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.

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 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.

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.

References

Ntfsprogs Wikipedia

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