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MOUNT_NTFS(8)		  BSD 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] [-W u2wtable] special
		node

DESCRIPTION
     The mount_ntfs utility attaches the NTFS file system residing on the
     device special to the global file system namespace at the location indi‐
     cated 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
	     default owner is the owner of the directory on which the file
	     system is being mounted.

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

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

     -C charset
	     Specify local charset to convert Unicode file names.  Currently
	     only reading is supported, thus the file system is to be mounted
	     read-only.

FEATURES
     NTFS file attributes are accessed in following way:

	   foo[[:ATTRTYPE]:ATTRNAME]

     ‘ATTRTYPE’ is one of the identifiers listed in $AttrDef file of volume.
     Default is $DATA.	‘ATTRNAME’ is an attribute name.  Default is none.

EXAMPLES
     To mount an ntfs volume located in /dev/ad1s1:

	   # mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt

     To get the volume name (in Unicode):

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

     To read directory raw data:

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

WRITING
     There is limited writing ability.	Limitations: file must be nonresident
     and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files
     are also not supported.

SEE ALSO
     mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8), mount_msdos(8)

CAVEATS
     This utility is primarily used for read access to an NTFS volume.	See
     the WRITING section for details about writing to an NTFS volume.

HISTORY
     The mount_ntfs utility first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.

AUTHORS
     The NTFS kernel implementation, mount_ntfs utility, and manual were writ‐
     ten by Semen Ustimenko ⟨semenu@FreeBSD.org⟩.

BSD				January 3, 1999				   BSD

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