Wednesday, August 5, 2009

NTFS on Linux

Apparently many distributions include an NTFS driver. Debian doesn't. The package you want to install is: ntfs-3g

There are some other tools for NTFS filesystems as well. Rather than re-invent the wheel on this one, check out:

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php

for information on the Linux-NTFS project. The kernel driver is very limited at the time of this post, so I suggest the userspace driver (ntfsprogs). It is apparently slower than the kernel driver, but includes basic features that the kernel driver doesn't - as well as some really neat utilities.

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