Linux NTFS 1.8.2 NTFS Tools and Library

[Gordon Darling]

Linux NTFS 1.8.2 NTFS Tools and Library
- NTFS and LDM drivers and tools for Linux.

About:
Linux NTFS provides Linux drivers and user space tools for the proprietary
filesystem used by Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003. It also provides
support for the Logical Disk Manager (LDM) that controls Windows' Dynamic
Disks and is used to create software Mirrors, Stripes, RAID, etc.

Changes:
In this release, ntfsprogs now builds and works on FreeBSD. There were
compilation fixes for DJGPP.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxntfs/
Homepage: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/linuxntfs/7277/url_tgz/ntfsprogs-1.8.2.tar.gz
RPM package:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/linuxntfs/7277/url_rpm/ntfsprogs-1.8.2-1.i386.rpm

Regards
Gordon

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

Linux NTFS 1.8.2 NTFS Tools and Library
- NTFS and LDM drivers and tools for Linux.

And for those interested in getting full read/write support in Linux
for NTFS, check out Captive here:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

As always, YMMV.

 

[Sz. Csetey]

And for those interested in getting full read/write support in Linux
for NTFS, check out Captive here: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
As always, YMMV.

Captive is a wrapper around the Windows NTFS driver. You can not
create, resize, clone NTFS volumes or undelete files like 'NTFS Tools'
can.

But on the other hand, it's possible to delete, rename, copy, etc
files with Captive however not with 'NTFS Tools'.

Captive gives a high level access to NTFS and the Linux NTFS Library
gives a low level one. 'NTFS tools' needs low level access, not found
in Captive.

The best would be the combination of these two but the Windows NTFS
driver doesn't have or export all the needed functionality. Using it
from non-Windows systems also has legal threats in many countries
because of EULA violation.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

The best would be the combination of these two but the Windows NTFS
driver doesn't have or export all the needed functionality.

I haven't checked, can you install both of them, or do they conflict?

Using it from non-Windows systems also has legal threats in many countries
because of EULA violation.

Yes, it's a EULA violation - but most end users running Linux could
care less about that.

 

[Sz. Csetey]

I haven't checked, can you install both of them, or do they conflict?

It's possible to use both. Actually Captive uses the Linux Tools to
get the Windows driver from the NTFS partition. Tricky

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

It's possible to use both. Actually Captive uses the Linux Tools to
get the Windows driver from the NTFS partition. Tricky

Oh, that's good. Best of both worlds then.