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NTFSMOUNT(8)							  NTFSMOUNT(8)

NAME
       ntfsmount - Read/Write userspace NTFS driver.

SYNOPSIS
       ntfsmount device mount_point [-o options]
       mount -t fuse.ntfs device mount_point [-o options]

       /etc/ftsab entry:
       device mount_point fuse.ntfs options 0 0

DESCRIPTION
       ntfsmount is a read/write userspace NTFS filesystem driver. Technically
       it connects FUSE with libntfs.

       ntfsmount features:
	      · Create/Delete/Move files and directories.
	      · Hard link files.
	      · Read and write to normal and sparse files.
	      · Read compressed and encrypted files.
	      · Access to special Interix files (symlinks, devices, FIFOs).
	      · List/Read/Write/Add/Remove named data streams.
	      · Supports Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and Mac OS X.

OPTIONS
       ntfsmount supports most of options that mount  and  FUSE	 accepts  (see
       "man  8 mount" and FUSE documentation for them). Additionally ntfsmount
       have some unique to it options, below is a summary of them.

       silent, nosilent
	      silent option makes ntfsmount to do not return "Operation is not
	      supported"  error	 on chmod and chown operations (this option is
	      on by default).  nosilent cancels this.

       locale=value
	      You can set locale with this option. It's useful if locale envi‐
	      ronment  variables are not set before partitions from /etc/fstab
	      had been mounted. Try submitting this option if you are  experi‐
	      ence problems with displaying national characters in filenames.

       uid=value, 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, dmask=value, fmask=value
	      Set  the	bitmask of the file and directory permissions that are
	      not present.  The value is given in octal. Instead of specifying
	      umask which applies both to files and directories, fmask applies
	      only to files and dmask only to directories.

       case_insensitive
	      Make ntfsmount treat filenames in POSIX names as	case  insensi‐
	      tive.  See FILENAME NAMESPACES section for details.

       no_def_opts
	      By  default ntfsmount acts as some useful options were passed to
	      it (you can get list of this options by running ntfsmount	 with‐
	      out  any arguments). Submitting this option will cancel such be‐
	      haviour.

       noblkdev
	      By default ntfsmount tries to mount block	 devices  with	blkdev
	      FUSE  option if it have enough privileges. Submit this option if
	      blkdev mount does not work for you for some reasons.

       force  Force mount even if errors occurred. Use this option only if you
	      know what are you doing and don't cry about data loss.

       relatime, norelatime
	      Update  inode  access  times  relative to modify or change time.
	      Access time is only updated if the previous access time was ear‐
	      lier  than  the current modify or change time. (Similar to noat‐
	      ime, but doesn't break mutt or other applications that  need  to
	      know  if	a  file has been read since the last time it was modi‐
	      fied.)

       streams_interface=value
	      This option controls how the user can access named data streams.
	      It  can  be  set	to,  one  of  none, windows or xattr. See DATA
	      STREAMS section for details.

       debug  Makes ntfsmount to not detach from terminal and print a  lot  of
	      debug output from libntfs and FUSE.

       no_detach
	      Same as above but with less debug output.

FILENAME NAMESPACES
       There  are  exist  several namespaces for filenames in NTFS: DOS, Win32
       and POSIX.  Names in DOS and Win32 namespaces are case insensitive, but
       names in POSIX namespace are case sensitive. By default windows creates
       filenames in DOS and Win32 namespaces (with exception for hard  links),
       but  ntfsmount  always  creates files in POSIX namespace. Note: you can
       create several files that differs only in case in  one  directory  with
       ntfsmount, but windows applications may be confused by this.

DATA STREAMS
       All  data  on  NTFS  is	stored 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.  Windows applications
       don't, consistently, allow you to read named data streams, so  you  are
       recommended to use tools like FAR, or utilities from Cygwin.

       By  default or if "streams_interface=none" option was passed, ntfsmount
       will only read the unnamed data stream.

       By using the option "streams_interface=windows", you will  be  able  to
       read  any  named	 data  streams, simply by specifying the stream's name
       after a colon.  Named data streams act like normals 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. Some examples:

	      cat some.mp3:artist
	      rm some.mp3:album
	      echo Sympho Black Metal > some.mp3:genre
	      getfattr -n ntfs.streams.list some.mp3

       If  streams_interface  option  is  set  to  xattr,  then the named data
       streams are mapped to xattrs and user can manipulate  them  using  get‐
       fattr and setfattr utilities. Eg.:

	      setfattr -n user.artist -v "Some Artist" some.mp3
	      getfattr -d some.mp3

ALLOWED CHARACTERS
       Win32  does  not	 allow characters like '<', '>', '*', '?' and so on in
       the filenames, but NTFS supports any characters except '\0' (NULL)  and
       '/'.   You  can	create	filenames  with any allowed by NTFS characters
       using ntfsmount, but aware, you will not be able to access  files  with
       denied by Win32 characters from windows.

ACCESS HANDLING AND SECURITY
       By  default,  files  and directories are owned by the user and group of
       the mounting process and everybody has full read, write, execution  and
       directory  browsing  permissions.   If you want to use permissions han‐
       dling then use the uid and/or the gid options together with  the	 umask
       or fmask and dmask options.

       Windows users have full access to the files created by ntfsmount.

EXAMPLES
       Mount /dev/hda1 to /mnt/ntfs using ntfsmount submiting locale option:

	      ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs -o locale=be_BY.UTF-8

       /etc/fstab entry for above:

	      /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs fuse.ntfs locale=be_BY.UTF-8 0 0

       Umount /mnt/ntfs:

	      fusermount -u /mnt/ntfs

BUGS
       If  you	find  a bug please send an email describing the problem to the
       development team:
       linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net

AUTHORS
       ntfsmount was written by Yura Pakhuchiy, with contributions from	 Yuval
       Fledel and Szabolcs Szakacsits.

DEDICATION
       With love to Marina Sapego.

THANKS
       Many thanks to Miklos Szeredi for advice and answers about FUSE.

AVAILABILITY
       ntfsmount is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available from:
       http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37

       The manual pages are available online at:
       http://man.linux-ntfs.org/

       Additional up-to-date information can be found furthermore at:
       http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount

SEE ALSO
       Read libntfs(8) for details how to access encrypted files.

       libntfs(8), ntfsprogs(8), attr(5), getfattr(1)

ntfsprogs 2.0.0			September 2007			  NTFSMOUNT(8)
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