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NTFS-3G(8)							    NTFS-3G(8)

NAME
       ntfs-3g - Third Generation Read/Write NTFS Driver

SYNOPSIS
       ntfs-3g volume mount_point [-o option[,...]]
       mount -t ntfs-3g volume mount_point [-o option[,...]]

DESCRIPTION
       ntfs-3g	is  an	NTFS  driver,  which  can create, remove, rename, move
       files, directories, hard links, and streams;  it	 can  read  and	 write
       files,  including streams and sparse files; it can handle special files
       like symbolic links, devices, and FIFOs; moreover it can also read  and
       create transparently compressed files.

       The volume to be mounted can be either a block device or an image file.

   Access Handling and Security
       By  default,  files and directories are owned by the effective user and
       group of the mounting process and everybody has full read, write,  exe‐
       cution and directory browsing permissions.  You can also assign permis‐
       sions to a single user by using the uid and/or the gid options together
       with the umask, or fmask and dmask options.

       Doing  so,  Windows  users  have	 full  access  to the files created by
       ntfs-3g.

       But,  by	 defining  a  Windows-to-Linux	user  mapping  in   the	  file
       .NTFS-3G/UserMapping,  you can benefit from the full ownership and per‐
       missions features as defined by Posix and those ownership  and  permis‐
       sions will be applied to Windows users and conversely.

       If  ntfs-3g is set setuid-root then non-root users will be also able to
       mount volumes.

   Windows Filename Compatibility
       NTFS supports several filename namespaces: DOS, Win32 and POSIX.	 While
       the  ntfs-3g driver handles all of them, it always creates new files in
       the POSIX namespace for maximum portability and	interoperability  rea‐
       sons.   This means that filenames are case sensitive and all characters
       are allowed except '/' and '\0'. This is perfectly  legal  on  Windows,
       though  some  application  may get confused. If you find so then please
       report it to the developer of the relevant Windows software.

   Alternate Data Streams (ADS)
       NTFS stores all data in streams. Every file  has	 exactly  one  unnamed
       data  stream  and can have many named data streams.  The size of a file
       is the size of its unnamed data stream.	By default, ntfs-3g will  only
       read the unnamed data stream.

       By  using  the options "streams_interface=windows", you will be able to
       read any named data streams, simply by  specifying  the	stream's  name
       after a colon.  For example:

	      cat some.mp3:artist

       Named  data  streams  act like normal files, so you can read from them,
       write to them and even delete them (using rm).  You can	list  all  the
       named  data  streams  a	file  has  by  getting the "ntfs.streams.list"
       extended attribute.

OPTIONS
       Below is a summary of the options that ntfs-3g accepts.

       uid=value and gid=value
	      Set the owner and the group of files and directories. The values
	      are  numerical.  The defaults are the uid and gid of the current
	      process.

       umask=value
	      Set the  bitmask of the file and directory permissions that  are
	      not present. The value is given in octal. The default value is 0
	      which means full access to everybody.

       fmask=value
	      Set the  bitmask of the file permissions that are	 not  present.
	      The  value is given in octal. The default value is 0 which means
	      full access to everybody.

       dmask=value
	      Set the  bitmask of  the	directory  permissions	that  are  not
	      present.	The  value  is	given in octal. The default value is 0
	      which means full access to everybody.

       usermapping=file-name
	      Use file file-name as the	 user  mapping	file  instead  of  the
	      default  .NTFS-3G/UserMapping. If file-name defines a full path,
	      the file must be located on a partition previously  mounted.  If
	      it  defines  a  relative path, it is interpreted relative to the
	      root of NTFS partition being mounted.

	      When a user mapping file is defined,  the	 options  uid=,	 gid=,
	      umask=, fmask=, dmask= and dsilent= are ignored.

       default_permissions
	      Use  standard access control. This option requires either a user
	      mapping file to be present, or the options uid= and  gid=	 of  a
	      user  to	be  defined. This option is set by default when a user
	      mapping file or an ownership related option is present.

       inherit
	      When creating a new file, set its initial ownership and  protec‐
	      tions  according	to  inheritance rules defined in parent direc‐
	      tory. These rules deviate from Posix specifications, but yield a
	      better  Windows  compatibility.  A  valid	 user  mapping file is
	      required for this option to be effective.

       ro     Mount filesystem read-only. Useful if Windows is	hibernated  or
	      the NTFS journal file is unclean.

       locale=value
	      This  option  can	 be  useful  when  wanting a language specific
	      locale environment.  It is however discouraged as	 it  leads  to
	      files  with  untranslatable  chars to not be visible. Please see
	      more information about  this  topic  at  http://ntfs-3g.org/sup‐
	      port.html#locale

       force  Force the mounting even if the NTFS logfile is unclean. The log‐
	      file will be unconditionally cleared. Use this option with  cau‐
	      tion and for your own responsibility.

       remove_hiberfile
	      Unlike  in  case	of  read-only  mount,  the read-write mount is
	      denied if the NTFS volume is hibernated.	One  needs  either  to
	      resume  Windows  and  shutdown  it  properly, or use this option
	      which will remove the Windows  hibernation  file.	 Please	 note,
	      this  means  that	 the  saved Windows session will be completely
	      lost. Use this option for your own responsibility.

       atime, noatime, relatime
	      The atime option updates inode access time for each access.

	      The noatime option disables inode access time updates which  can
	      speed  up	 file operations and prevent sleeping (notebook) disks
	      spinning up too often thus saving energy and disk lifetime.

	      The relatime option is very similar  to  noatime.	  It   updates
	      inode  access  times  relative  to  modify  or change time.  The
	      access time is only updated if the previous access time was ear‐
	      lier than the current modify or change time. Unlike noatime this
	      option doesn't break applications that need to know  if  a  file
	      has  been read since the last time it was modified.  This is the
	      default behaviour.

       show_sys_files
	      Show the system files  in	 directory  listings.	Otherwise  the
	      default behaviour is to hide the system files.  Please note that
	      even when this option is specified, "$MFT" may  not  be  visible
	      due   to	 a   glibc   bug.    Furthermore,   irrespectively  of
	      show_sys_files, all files are accessible by  name,  for  example
	      you can always do "ls -l '$UpCase'".

       allow_other
	      This  option  overrides  the  security  measure restricting file
	      access to the user mounting the filesystem. This option is  only
	      allowed  to  root, but this restriction can be overridden by the
	      'user_allow_other' option in the /etc/fuse.conf file.

       max_read=value
	      With this option the maximum size of read operations can be set.
	      The default is infinite.	Note that the size of read requests is
	      limited anyway to 32 pages (which is 128kbyte on i386).

       silent Do nothing on chmod and chown  operations,  but  do  not	return
	      error when the user mapping file required by these operations is
	      not defined.  This option is on by default.

       no_def_opts
	      By default ntfs-3g acts as  "silent"  was	 passed	 to  it,  this
	      option cancel this behaviour.

       streams_interface=value
	      This  option  controls  how  the	user can access Alternate Data
	      Streams (ADS) or in other words, named data streams. It  can  be
	      set  to,	one of none, windows or xattr. If the option is set to
	      none, the user will have no access to the	 named	data  streams.
	      If  it's set to windows, then the user can access them just like
	      in Windows (eg. cat file:stream). If it's set to xattr, then the
	      named  data streams are mapped to xattrs and user can manipulate
	      them using {get,set}fattr utilities. The default is xattr.

       user_xattr
	      Same as streams_interface=xattr.

       efs_raw
	      This option should only be used in backup or restore  situation.
	      It  changes  the apparent size of files and the behavior of read
	      and write operation so that encrypted files  can	be  saved  and
	      restored without being decrypted. The user.ntfs.efsinfo extended
	      attribute has also to be saved and restored for the file	to  be
	      decrypted.

       debug  Makes  ntfs-3g  to  not  detach from terminal and print a lot of
	      debug output from libntfs-3g and FUSE.

       no_detach
	      Same as above but with less debug output.

USER MAPPING
       NTFS uses specific ids to record the ownership of files instead of  the
       uid  and	 gid used by Linux. As a consequence a mapping between the ids
       has to be defined for ownerships to be recorded into  NTFS  and	recog‐
       nized.

       By  default  this mapping is fetched from the file .NTFS-3G/UserMapping
       located in the NTFS partition. The option usermapping= may be  used  to
       define another location.

       Each  line  in the user mapping file defines a mapping. It is organized
       in three fields separated by colons. The first field identifies a  uid,
       the second field identifies a gid and the third one identifies the cor‐
       responding NTFS id, known as a SID. The uid and the  gid	 are  optional
       and defining both of them for the same SID is not recommended.

       If  no  interoperation with Windows is needed, a single default mapping
       with no uid and gid can be  used.  Just	copy  the  example  below  and
       replace	the  9	and  10-digit  numbers	by any number not greater than
       4294967295.

	      ::S-1-5-21-3141592653-589793238-462643383-10000

       If interoperation with Windows is needed, the mapping has to be defined
       for each user and group known in both system, and the SIDs used by Win‐
       dows has to be collected. This will lead to a user mapping file like :

	      john::S-1-5-21-3141592653-589793238-462643383-1008
	      mary::S-1-5-21-3141592653-589793238-462643383-1009
	      :smith:S-1-5-21-3141592653-589793238-462643383-513
	      ::S-1-5-21-3141592653-589793238-462643383-10000

       The  utility  ntfs-3g.usermap  may  be  used to create the user mapping
       file.

EXAMPLES
       Mount /dev/sda1 to /mnt/windows:

	      ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

       or

	      mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

       Read-only mount /dev/sda5 to /home/user/mnt and make user with uid 1000
       to be the owner of all files:

	      ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /home/user/mnt -o ro,uid=1000

       /etc/fstab entry for the above:

	      /dev/sda5 /home/user/mnt ntfs-3g ro,uid=1000 0 0

       Unmount /mnt/windows:

	      umount /mnt/windows

EXIT CODES
       To facilitate the use of the ntfs-3g driver in scripts, an exit code is
       returned to give an indication of the mountability status of a  volume.
       Value  0	 means	success,  and all other ones mean an error. The unique
       error codes are documented in the ntfs-3g.probe(8) manual page.

KNOWN ISSUES
       Please see

	      http://www.tuxera.com/support/

       for common questions and known issues.  If you would find a new one  in
       the latest release of the software then please send an email describing
       it  in  detail.	You  can  contact  the	 development   team   on   the
       ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.net address.

AUTHORS
       ntfs-3g	was  based on and a major improvement to ntfsmount and libntfs
       which were written by Yura  Pakhuchiy  and  the	Linux-NTFS  team.  The
       improvements were made, the ntfs-3g project was initiated and currently
       led  by	long  time  Linux-NTFS	team  developer	 Szabolcs   Szakacsits
       (szaka@tuxera.com).

THANKS
       Several people made heroic efforts, often over five or more years which
       resulted the ntfs-3g driver. Most  importantly  they  are  Anton	 Alta‐
       parmakov,  Jean-Pierre André, Richard Russon, Szabolcs Szakacsits, Yura
       Pakhuchiy, Yuval Fledel, and the	 author	 of  the  groundbreaking  FUSE
       filesystem development framework, Miklos Szeredi.

SEE ALSO
       ntfs-3g.probe(8), ntfsprogs(8), attr(5), getfattr(1)

ntfs-3g 2010.3.6		 February 2010			    NTFS-3G(8)
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