ntfsprogs are a collection of utilities for doing stuff with NTFS volumes.
When building ntfsprogs, you can decide between two major parts:
“make all” will build all the utilities that are distributed in the binary packages in the various distributions. These include useful stable utilities.
“make extra” will build the “development grade” utilities. These are a set of utilities that will become stable and useful some day, but are not fully implemented and/or tested yet.
In addition, there are three optional extensions to the ntfsprogs package:
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–enable-gnomevfs: adds the “ntfs:
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The ntfsprogs use libntfs as their backend.
===== Users utilities: =====
These are the utilities that users can already use right now. Many of them are usually installed by default or made available for easy installation by your distribution. Alternatively you can build them from source.
* ntfsmount: The user-space file system driver. Mount and access NTFS read-write using the FUSE module.
* ntfsresize: Safely resize NTFS volumes.
* ntfsclone: Efficiently clone, image, restore or rescue NTFS.
* mkntfs: Create NTFS volumes.
* ntfsfix: Schedule NTFS check for the next Windows boot.
* ntfsundelete: Undelete files.
* ntfswipe: Wipe data from unused space.
* ntfsdecrypt: Decrypt $EFS-encrypted files.
The following tools are planned, but not yet implemented:
* ntfsck: fsck for NTFS.
* ntfsdefrag: defrag NTFS volumes.
===== Other (basic) utilities: =====
These are utilities to perform basic operations on the volume without the need to mount it first.
* ntfscp: the 'cp' (copy) command.
* ntfsrm: the 'rm' (remove) command.
* ntfscat: the 'cat' (show contents of file) command.
* ntfslabel: rename the volume label.
* ntfsls: the 'ls' (list directory contents) command.
* ntfstruncate: truncate files to a given size.
* ntfsmove: moves the file's data to another set of clusters on the disk.
===== Developers utilities: =====
These tools are already usable as well, but might be of little to no use to typical users. They are mostly intended for file system analysis, so if you don't know what they're good for you don't need them.
* ntfscluster: Find out which file is stored on some cluster.
* ntfscmp: Logically compare two NTFS volumes.
* ntfsdump_logfile: Parse the contents of the journal.
* ntfsinfo: Show information about files and directories.
The following tool is planned:
* ntfsdiskedit: Visually edit your NTFS volume.
===== Contributed utilities that are not components of ntfsprogs: =====
Utilitys that were contributed by third parties. This Software is not maintained, supported or reviewed by Linux-NTFS project members. It was contributed to the Linux-NTFS project by outsiders. It is not maintained by this project and may not even be tested. It is referenced from this wiki with hope it may be useful.
* relocntfs - program for adjusting file system start sector on an NTFS partitions.
* ntfsreloc - based on relocntfs, updates the backup sector as well, and handles heads and sectors per track, not only start sector.