NTFSLS(8)

💅 NTFSLS(8) — ntfsls, System Manager's Manual ✨

💖 NAME

ntfsls — list directory contents on an NTFS filesystem. That’s literally the whole vibe, bestie 💫

📂 SYNOPSIS

ntfsls [options] device

ntfsls [ -a | --all ] [ -F | --classify ] [ -f | --force ] [ -h | --help
] [ -i | --inode ] [ -l | --long ] [ -p | --path PATH ] [ -q | --quiet ]
[ -s | --system ] [ -V | --version ] [ -v | --verbose ] [ -x | --dos ]
device

Two valid forms, no cap. The second one is just the full option-spotlight version, periodt.

🔎 DESCRIPTION

Okay so here’s the tea: ntfsls is used to list information about the files specified by the PATH option (the root directory by default). DEVICE is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g. /dev/hdXX) or an NTFS image file. Iconic, honestly 🎀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Below is a summary of all the options that ntfsls accepts. Nearly all options have two equivalent names. The short name is preceded by - and the long name is preceded by --. Any single letter options, that don’t take an argument, can be combined into a single command, e.g. -fv is equivalent to -f -v. Long named options can be abbreviated to any unique prefix of their name. Slay 💅

• -a, --all — Display all files. If this option is not specified, file names in the POSIX namespace will not be displayed.
• -F, --classify — Append indicator (one of */=@|) to entries.
• -f, --force — Force execution. For example, necessary to run on an NTFS partition stored in a normal file.
• -h, --help — Print the usage information of ntfsls and exit.
• -i, --inode — Print inode number of each file. This is the MFT reference number in NTFS terminology.
• -l, --long — Use a long listing format.
• -p, --path PATH — The directory whose contents to list or the file (including the path) about which to display information.
• -q, --quiet — Suppress some debug/warning/error messages.
• -R, --recursive — Show the contents of all directories beneath the specified directory.
• -s, --system — Unless this option is specified, all files beginning with a dollar sign character will not be listed as these files are usually system files.
• -v, --verbose — Display more debug/warning/error messages.
• -V, --version — Print the version number of ntfsls and exit.
• -x, --dos — Display short file names, i.e. files in the DOS namespace, instead of long file names, i.e. files in the WIN32 namespace.

🐛 BUGS

There are no known problems with ntfsls. If you find a bug please send an email describing the problem to the development team: ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.net 🫶

👑 AUTHORS

This version of ntfsls was written by Lode Leroy, Anton Altaparmakov, Richard Russon, Carmelo Kintana and Giang Nguyen. It was ported to ntfs-3g by Erik Larsson. Respect the icons 🫡

🌈 AVAILABILITY

ntfsls is part of the ntfs-3g package and is available from: https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/ 🌟

🦋 SEE ALSO

ntfsprogs(8)

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xoxo, your ntfsls bestie 💖 — this page is from ntfs-3g 2026.9.28, dated November 2005 🫶✨