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ntfs-3g is a project giving unlimited read-write access to ntfs fiel system partitions. With this library and FUSE ntfs partitions can be treated almost transparently by linux.
 
ntfs-3g is a project giving unlimited read-write access to ntfs fiel system partitions. With this library and FUSE ntfs partitions can be treated almost transparently by linux.
 
*Requires FUSE 2.6
 
*Requires FUSE 2.6
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*[http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#installation Installation notes]
 
*http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
 
*http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
  
 
=See also=
 
=See also=
 
*[[Virtual file systems]]
 
*[[Virtual file systems]]

Revision as of 22:44, 29 December 2006

The Kernel requires a filesystem to start up. In unix terms this means it's /sbin/init or /linuxrc. It's also important that the OS is able to read and write all common file systems.

FUSE

User-space implementation of a filesystem API.

  • Requires kernel module that is standard in 2.6 kernels
  • Good examples of custom implementation

NTFS

ntfs-3g is a project giving unlimited read-write access to ntfs fiel system partitions. With this library and FUSE ntfs partitions can be treated almost transparently by linux.

See also