NTFS Overview ============= To mount an NTFS volume, use the filesystem type 'ntfs'. The driver currently works only in read-only mode, with no fault-tolerance supported. If you enable the experimental write support, make sure you can recover from a complete loss of data and also always run chkdsk from within Microsoft Windows NT after performing a write to a NTFS partition from Linux to detect any problems as early as possible. For ftdisk support, limited success was reported with volume sets on top of the md driver, although mirror and stripe sets should work as well - if the md driver can be talked into using the same layout as Windows NT. Please note that the experimental write support is limited to Windows NT4 and earlier versions. The ntfs driver supports the following mount options: iocharset=name Character set to use when returning file names. Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain unconvertible characters utf8= Use UTF-8 for converting file names uni_xlate=,2 Use the VFAT-style encoding for file names outside the current character set. A boolean value will enable the feature, a value of 2 will enable the encoding as documented in vfat.txt: ':', (u & 0x3f), ((u>>6) & 0x3f), (u>>12), uid= gid= umask= These options work as documented in mount(8). By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else. posix= If enabled, the file system distinguishes between upper and lower case. The 8.3 alias names are presented as hard links instead of being suppressed.