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MOUNT_NTFS(8)           NetBSD System Manager's Manual           MOUNT_NTFS(8)


NAME

     mount_ntfs - mount an NTFS file system


SYNOPSIS

     mount_ntfs [-a] [-i] [-u uid] [-g gid] [-m mask] special node


DESCRIPTION

     The mount_ntfs command attaches the NTFS filesystem residing on the de-
     vice special to the global filesystem namespace at the location indicated
     by node.  This command is normally executed by mount(8) at boot time, but
     can be used by any user to mount an NTFS file system on any directory
     that they own (provided, of course, that they have appropriate access to
     the device that contains the file system).

     The options are as follows:

     -a      Force behaviour to return MS-DOS 8.3 names also on readdir().

     -i      Make name lookup case insensitive for all names except POSIX
             names.

     -u uid  Set the owner of the files in the file system to uid.  The de-
             fault owner is the owner of the directory on which the file sys-
             tem is being mounted.

     -g gid  Set the group of the files in the file system to gid.  The de-
             fault group is the group of the directory on which the file sys-
             tem is being mounted.

     -m mask
             Specify the maximum file permissions for files in the file sys-
             tem.


FEATURES

   NTFS file attributes
     NTFS file attributes can be accessed in following way:

           foo[[:ATTRTYPE]:ATTRNAME]

     `ATTRTYPE' is one of identifier listed in $AttrDef file of volume. De-
     fault is $DATA.  `ATTRNAME' is an attribute name. Default is none.

     Examples:

     To get volume name (in Unicode):

           # cat /mnt/\$Volume:\$VOLUME_NAME

     To read directory raw data:

           # cat /mnt/foodir:\$INDEX_ROOT:\$I30

   Limited support for writing
     There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident,
     must not contain any holes (uninitialized areas) and can't be compressed.

     Warning: while read-only mode appears to be very stable and there are no
     known problems, the read-write mode has not been very well tested yet and
     it may well be possible that an attempt to write into file residing on
     NTFS could damage the filesystem. Don't experiment with read-write mode
     unless you are ready to recover the trashed contents any time.


SEE ALSO

     mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)


HISTORY

     Support for NTFS first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.  It has been ported to
     NetBSD and first appeared here in NetBSD 1.5.


AUTHOR

     NTFS kernel implementation, mount_ntfs and this manual were originally
     written by Semen Ustimenko <semenu@FreeBSD.org>.

     NetBSD port was done by Christos Zoulas <christos@NetBSD.org> and Jaromir
     Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>.

NetBSD 1.5                      January 3, 1999                              2