NTFS

NTFS (New Technology File System) is a proprietary disk filesystem by Microsoft for Windows and Windows-based operating systems.

Kernel
The following kernel options must be enabled for NTFS read/write capabilities in Linux. To get full write support you need to use package. The kernel implementation offers only limited write support.

USE flags
is currently the best implementation of NTFS for Linux and the only implementation available in the main Gentoo repository.

Emerge
Install the necessary userspace tools in order to manipulate NTFS filesystems:

Creation
To create an NTFS filesystem on the partition (needs   USE flag):

Please replace with the actual partition you want to format.

Mount
There are several ways to mount a NTFS filesystem:


 * mount - Manual mount
 * fstab - Automatic mount at boot time.
 * removable media - Automatic mount at demand.
 * AutoFS - Automatic mount on access.

External resources

 * NTFS at Microsoft's TechNet