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ntfsprogs

Free Unix utilities for managing the NTFS file system used by the Windows NT operating system

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.[1]

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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[2] 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.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Shilliday, Barry (2007-04-17). "Running Other Operating Systems alongside Linux". Personal Computer World. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
  2. [2]
    Mathes, Steven (2007-02-01). "The Interoperability Power of Linux-NTFS Tools". Linux Journal. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
  3. [3]
    Stable NTFS-3G + NTFSPROGS 2011.4.12
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