Ntfsprogs was a collection of free

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utilities for managing the

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used by the

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operating system (since version 3.1) on a hard disk partition. '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

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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 announced that Ntfsprogs project was merged into

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.Stable NTFS-3G + NTFSPROGS 2011.4.12
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* Free storage software Free software programmed in C Unix file system-related software {{Storage-software-stub

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