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34.Dd January 3, 1999
35.Dt MOUNT_NTFS 8
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm mount_ntfs
39.Nd mount an NTFS file system
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm
42.Op Fl a
43.Op Fl i
44.Op Fl u Ar uid
45.Op Fl g Ar gid
46.Op Fl m Ar mask
47.Op Fl W Ar u2wtable
48.Pa special
49.Pa node
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53utility attaches the NTFS file system residing on the device
54.Pa special
55to the global file system namespace at the location
56indicated by
57.Pa node .
58This command is normally executed by
59.Xr mount 8
60at boot time, but can be used by any user to mount an
61NTFS file system on any directory that they own (provided,
62of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that
63contains the file system).
64.Pp
65The options are as follows:
66.Bl -tag -width Ds
67.It Fl a
68Force behaviour to return MS-DOS 8.3 names also on
69.Fn readdir .
70.It Fl i
71Make name lookup case insensitive for all names except POSIX names.
72.It Fl u Ar uid
73Set the owner of the files in the file system to
74.Ar uid .
75The default owner is the owner of the directory
76on which the file system is being mounted.
77.It Fl g Ar gid
78Set the group of the files in the file system to
79.Ar gid .
80The default group is the group of the directory
81on which the file system is being mounted.
82.It Fl m Ar mask
83Specify the maximum file permissions for files
84in the file system.
85.It Fl C Ar charset
86Specify local
87.Ar charset
88to convert Unicode file names.
89Currently only reading is supported, thus the file system is to be
90mounted read-only.
91.El
92.Sh FEATURES
93NTFS file attributes are accessed in following way:
94.Bd -literal -offset indent
95foo[[:ATTRTYPE]:ATTRNAME]
96.Ed
97.Pp
98.Sq ATTRTYPE
99is one of the identifiers listed in $AttrDef file of
100volume.
101Default is $DATA.
102.Sq ATTRNAME
103is an attribute name.
104Default is none.
105.Sh EXAMPLES
106To mount an ntfs volume located in
107.Pa /dev/ad1s1 :
108.Bd -literal -offset indent
109# mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt
110.Ed
111.Pp
112To get the volume name (in Unicode):
113.Bd -literal -offset indent
114# cat /mnt/\\$Volume:\\$VOLUME_NAME
115.Ed
116.Pp
117To read directory raw data:
118.Bd -literal -offset indent
119# cat /mnt/foodir:\\$INDEX_ROOT:\\$I30
120.Ed
121.Sh WRITING
122There is limited writing ability.
123Limitations: file must be nonresident
124and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed
125files are also not supported.
126.Sh SEE ALSO
127.Xr mount 2 ,
128.Xr unmount 2 ,
129.Xr fstab 5 ,
130.Xr mount 8 ,
131.Xr mount_msdos 8
132.Sh CAVEATS
133This utility is primarily used for read access to an NTFS volume.
134See the
135.Sx WRITING
136section for details about writing to an NTFS volume.
137.Sh HISTORY
138The
139.Nm
140utility first appeared in
141.Fx 3.0 .
142.Sh AUTHORS
143The NTFS kernel implementation,
144.Nm
145utility, and manual were written by
146.An Semen Ustimenko Aq semenu@FreeBSD.org .
147