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39 .Nd mount an NTFS file system
53 utility attaches the NTFS file system residing on the device
55 to the global file system namespace at the location
58 This command is normally executed by
60 at boot time, but can be used by any user to mount an
61 NTFS file system on any directory that they own (provided,
62 of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that
63 contains the file system).
65 The options are as follows:
68 Force behaviour to return MS-DOS 8.3 names also on
71 Make name lookup case insensitive for all names except POSIX names.
73 Set the owner of the files in the file system to
75 The default owner is the owner of the directory
76 on which the file system is being mounted.
78 Set the group of the files in the file system to
80 The default group is the group of the directory
81 on which the file system is being mounted.
83 Specify the maximum file permissions for files
88 to convert Unicode file names.
89 Currently only reading is supported, thus the file system is to be
93 NTFS file attributes are accessed in following way:
94 .Bd -literal -offset indent
95 foo[[:ATTRTYPE]:ATTRNAME]
99 is one of the identifiers listed in $AttrDef file of
103 is an attribute name.
106 To mount an ntfs volume located in
108 .Bd -literal -offset indent
109 # mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt
112 To get the volume name (in Unicode):
113 .Bd -literal -offset indent
114 # cat /mnt/\\$Volume:\\$VOLUME_NAME
117 To read directory raw data:
118 .Bd -literal -offset indent
119 # cat /mnt/foodir:\\$INDEX_ROOT:\\$I30
122 There is limited writing ability.
123 Limitations: file must be nonresident
124 and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed
125 files are also not supported.
133 This utility is primarily used for read access to an NTFS volume.
136 section for details about writing to an NTFS volume.
140 utility first appeared in
143 The NTFS kernel implementation,
145 utility, and manual were written by
146 .An Semen Ustimenko Aq semenu@FreeBSD.org .