INTRODUCTION ============ The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver 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 platforms and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate 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 can be found at 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://ntfs-3g.org QUICK INSTALLATION ================== Linux: Make sure you have the basic development tools and the kernel includes the FUSE kernel module. Then type: ./configure make make install # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root. Please note that NTFS-3G doesn't require the FUSE user space package anymore. Non-Linux: Please see the NTFS-3G web page for OS specific installation and source packages. USAGE ===== If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be 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 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 line at the __END__ of the /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0