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Ntfsprogs

software

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ1337805 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ntfsprogs was a collection of free Unix utilities for managing the NTFS file system used by the Windows NT operating system (since version 3.1) on a hard disk partition. 'ntfsprogs' was the first stable method of writing to NTFS partitions in Linux.

All NTFS versions were supported, as used by 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. ntfsprogs was a popular way of interacting with NTFS partitions and was included by most Linux distributions and on Live CDs. There are also versions that have been compiled for Windows.

On April 12, 2011 Tuxera announced that Ntfsprogs project was merged into NTFS-3G.

See also

e2fsprogs

reiserfsprogs

Tuxera

References

Shilliday, Barry (2006-12-06). "It's All Write Now: NTFS Filesystem under Linux". Personal Computer World. Retrieved 2008-05-29.

Smith, Roderick (2008-03-30).

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Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2006, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ntfsprogs and software is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ntfsprogs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.