NTFSPROGS(8)

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💅 NTFSPROGS(8) — the ntfsprogs glow-up

okay bestie, this is a page from the System Manager's Manual, and honestly? it's a whole vibe. it's ntfsprogs, and it's here to make NTFS behave. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ntfsprogs — tools for doing neat things with NTFS

🌸 OVERVIEW 🌸

so ntfsprogs is a suite of NTFS utilities, and the way it's built is that they all sit on top of a shared library. 🫶

the tools are available for free and come with full source code — like, all of it, no gatekeeping, no cap. 👑

🦋 TOOLS 🦋

okay this is the main character section, let's go tool by tool, no skipping, periodt:

  • mkntfs(8) — Create an NTFS filesystem.
  • ntfscat(8) — Dump a file's content to the standard output.
  • ntfsclone(8) — Efficiently clone, backup, restore or rescue NTFS.
  • ntfscluster(8) — Locate the files which use the given sectors or clusters.
  • ntfscmp(8) — Compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences.
  • ntfscp(8) — Copy a file to an NTFS volume.
  • ntfsfallocate(8) — Preallocate space to a file on an NTFS volume
  • ntfsfix(8) — Check and fix some common errors, clear the LogFile and make Windows perform a thorough check next time it boots.
  • ntfsinfo(8) — Show information about NTFS or one of the files or directories within it.
  • ntfslabel(8) — Show, or set, an NTFS filesystem's volume label.
  • ntfsls(8) — List information about files in a directory residing on an NTFS.
  • ntfsresize(8) — Resize NTFS without losing data.
  • ntfsrecover(8) — Recover updates committed by Windows on an NTFS volume.
  • ntfstruncate(8) — Truncate a file on an NTFS volume.
  • ntfsundelete(8) — Recover deleted files from NTFS.
  • ntfswipe(8) — Overwrite unused space on an NTFS volume.

like?? that's sixteen little icons and every one of them ate. 🔥

💜 AUTHORS 💜

the tools were written by Anton Altaparmakov, Carmelo Kintana, Cristian Klein, Erik Sornes, Giang Nguyen, Holger Ohmacht, Lode Leroy, Matthew J. Fanto, Per Olofsson, Richard Russon, Szabolcs Szakacsits, Yura Pakhuchiy and Yuval Fledel.

we stan the whole group chat tbh. 👑✨

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

the ntfsprogs are part of the ntfs-3g package, which can be downloaded from:

https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/

go get it bestie, it's giving free and it's giving source code. 🧚

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

💖 so yeah — shared library, sixteen utilities, fully free, full source. the ntfsprogs girlies are booked and busy.

this has been ntfs-3g 2026.9.28, dated September 2007 — yes she's an icon, yes she's vintage, mwah 💅🎀 🌸

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