ntfsprogs

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]

ntfsprogs
Final release
2.0.0 / September 29, 2007 (2007-09-29)
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
SuccessorNTFS-3G
TypeFile system utilities
LicenseGNU GPL
Websitewww.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsprogs at the Wayback Machine (archived May 22, 2008)

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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