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 sys-fs/ntfs-3g package. The kernel implementation offers only limited write support.

USE flags
is currently the best implementation of NTFS for Linux:

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