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NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver

The NTFS-3G driver is a freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 file systems.

NTFS-3G develops, quality tests and supports a trustable, feature rich and high performance solution for hardware platforms and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate with NTFS.

The driver is used by millions of computers, consumer electronics devices for reliable data exchange, and referenced in over 35 computer books. Please see our test methods and testimonials on the driver quality page.

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The NTFS-3G driver is used by over 240 distributions. Many, like Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE and Ubuntu with over 8 million users, use NTFS-3G as the default NTFS driver. The release notes and the software changes can be found on the Release History page. You can subscribe here for new release notifications.

The latest stable version is 2009.4.4, released on April 2, 2009.

Availability:

Installation

Linux: Most distributions includes and uses NTFS-3G. Please use that one unless it's an old version. If you wish to install NTFS-3G from the source code then make sure you have installed the basic development tools (gcc compiler, libc-dev libraries). Then type:

    ./configure
    make
    make install      # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root

Non-Linux: Please see the OS specific installation and source packages above.

Usage

If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be mounted in read-write mode for everybody as follows. Unmount the volume if it had already been mounted, replace /dev/sda1 and /mnt/windows, if needed.

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

You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by adding the following line to the end of the /etc/fstab file:

    /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0