Stable Full NTFS support in Linux Atlast!

Pedro · Jul 4, 2007

Adding full read/write NTFS support to Linux has been a story of damaged reputations, data corruptions and human ingenuity!

Since 1995 various groups have been working on adding support for NTFS to Linux, however their efforts were dealt a severe blow when Microsoft significantly changed the filesystem in Windows 2000. The project which came most near to a providing a complete support for NTFS was Captive NTFS which used Windows’s own native ntfs driver wrapped in ReactOS, however due to proprietary issues Captive NTFS could not be accepted as a mainstream solution.

Now after 12 years in development, there is a full driver at last! NTFS-3G, which uses Filesystem in User Space (FUSE), and provides full read/write support for NTFS partitions. Such was the demand that within 5 days of release the projects main page, received 2 million hits! Here is a brief tutorial how to make use of it.
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by Irfan Habib

NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver

Maybe not so new, but i post it anyway. Stable since February. Good news to me anyway.

Many other good articles abound, to those interested, my signature carries it for some time, Free Software Magazine and Free Software Daily.

About Free Software Daily

Free Software Daily was originally launched in 2005 by the staff at Free Software Magazine. It was based on Splash. Later on, FSM's staff decided to focus on blog entries rather than becoming a news hub. In 2007, the times were ready for Free Software Daily, this time based on Pligg where users vote stories up and down.
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Thought i'd share this too.

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