NTFS-3G(8) System Manager's Manual NTFS-3G(8)
NAME
ntfs-3g - Third Generation Read/Write NTFS Driver
SYNOPSIS
ntfs-3g volume mount_point [-o option[,...]]
mount -t ntfs-3g volume mount_point [-o option[,...]]
DESCRIPTION
ntfs-3g is an NTFS driver, which can create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams; it can read and write files,
including streams and sparse files; it can handle special files like symbolic links, devices, and FIFOs; moreover it can also read and cre-
ate transparently compressed files.
The volume to be mounted can be either a block device or an image file.
Access Handling and Security
By default, files and directories are owned by the effective user and group of the mounting process and everybody has full read, write,
execution and directory browsing permissions. You can also assign permissions to a single user by using the uid and/or the gid options
together with the umask, or fmask and dmask options.
Doing so, Windows users have full access to the files created by ntfs-3g.
But, by defining a Windows-to-Linux user mapping in the file .NTFS-3G/UserMapping, you can benefit from the full ownership and permissions
features as defined by Posix and those ownership and permissions will be applied to Windows users and conversely.
If ntfs-3g is set setuid-root then non-root users will be also able to mount volumes.
Windows Filename Compatibility
NTFS supports several filename namespaces: DOS, Win32 and POSIX. While the ntfs-3g driver handles all of them, it always creates new files
in the POSIX namespace for maximum portability and interoperability reasons. This means that filenames are case sensitive and all charac-
ters are allowed except '/' and '