NTFS Overview ============= To mount an NTFS volume, use the filesystem type 'ntfs'. The driver currently works only in read-only mode, with no fault-tolerance supported. If you enable the experimental write support, make sure you can recover from a complete loss of data. For ftdisk support, limited success was reported with volume sets on top of the md driver, although mirror and stripe sets should work as well - if the md driver can be talked into using the same layout as Windows NT. The ntfs driver supports the following mount options: iocharset=name Character set to use when returning file names. Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain unconvertible characters utf8= Use UTF-8 for converting file names uni_xlate=,2 Use the VFAT-style encoding for file names outside the current character set. A boolean value will enable the feature, a value of 2 will enable the encoding as documented in vfat.txt: ':', (u & 0x3f), ((u>>6) & 0x3f), (u>>12), uid= gid= umask= These options work as documented in mount(8). By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else. posix= If enabled, the file system distinguishes between upper and lower case. The 8.3 alias names are presented as hard links instead of being suppressed.