NAME¶
mount_ntfs —
mount an NTFS file
system
SYNOPSIS¶
| mount_ntfs |
[-a]
[-i]
[-u user]
[-g group]
[-m mask]
[-C
charset]
[-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 indicated 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
user
- Set the owner of the files in the file system to
user. The default owner is the owner of the
directory on which the file system is being mounted.
- -g
group
- Set the group of the files in the file system to
group. 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
system. Only the nine low-order bits of mask are
used.
- -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.
- -W
u2wtable
- Specify UNIX to Unicode translation
table. See mount_msdosfs(8) for the description of this
option.
This option is
preserved for backward compatibility purpose only, and will be removed in
the future. Please do not use this option.
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
To mount a Japanese NTFS volume located in
/dev/ad0s1:
mount_ntfs -C eucJP /dev/ad0s1
/mnt
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. The file name must not contain multibyte characters.
SEE ALSO¶
mount(2),
unmount(2),
fstab(5),
mount(8),
mount_msdosfs(8)
HISTORY¶
The
mount_ntfs utility first appeared in
FreeBSD 3.0.
The Unicode conversion routine was added by
Ryuichiro Imura ⟨imura@ryu16.org⟩ in 2003.
AUTHORS¶
The NTFS kernel implementation,
mount_ntfs utility, and manual
were written by
Semen Ustimenko
⟨semenu@FreeBSD.org⟩.
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.
For a full read-write NTFS support consider sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
port/package.
