Ntfsprogs was a collection of
free
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utilities for managing the
NTFS
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It was developed to overcome scalability, security and other limitations with File Allocation Tabl ...
file system used by the
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operating system (since
version 3.1) on a
hard disk partition
Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. These regions are called partitions. It is typically the first step of preparing a newly installed disk ...
. '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
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distributions and on
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s. There are also versions that have been compiled for Windows.
On April 12, 2011
Tuxera
Tuxera Inc. (natively Tuxera Oy) is a Finnish company that develops and sells file systems, flash management and networking software. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Tuxera's other offices are located i ...
announced that Ntfsprogs project was merged into
NTFS-3G.
Stable NTFS-3G + NTFSPROGS 2011.4.12
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See also
* e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs (sometimes called the e2fs programs) is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Since those file systems are often the default for Linux distributions, it is commonly considered to be essential softwar ...
* reiserfsprogs
Namesys was a California corporation responsible for the design and implementation of the ReiserFS and Reiser4 filesystems. It has been inactive since late 2007 and, , is listed with the State of California with a status of "Suspended". Owned by Ha ...
* Tuxera
Tuxera Inc. (natively Tuxera Oy) is a Finnish company that develops and sells file systems, flash management and networking software. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Tuxera's other offices are located i ...
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Free storage software
Free software programmed in C
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