ntfsprogs

Ntfsprogs was a collection of <a href="/facts/Free_software/IaoVtJXn">free</a> <a href="/facts/Unix/0pNL2seI">Unix</a> utilities for managing the <a href="/facts/NTFS/dryNM3BK">NTFS</a> <a href="/facts/File_system/FdPm90uc">file system</a> used by the <a href="/facts/Windows_NT/EtccWvxQ">Windows NT</a> operating system (since <a href="/facts/Windows_NT_3.1/2mdmR1cL">version 3.1</a>) on a <a href="/facts/Partition_(computing)/wrBk5RRS">hard disk partition</a>. 'ntfsprogs' was the first stable method of writing to NTFS partitions in Linux.
All NTFS versions were supported, as used by 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. ntfsprogs was a popular way of interacting with NTFS partitions and was included by most <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a> distributions and on <a href="/facts/Live_CD/J4bpHUs1">Live CDs</a>. There are also versions that have been compiled for Windows.
On April 12, 2011 <a href="/facts/Tuxera/7635YDYo">Tuxera</a> announced that Ntfsprogs project was merged into <a href="/facts/NTFS-3G/1mCWFSuc">NTFS-3G</a>.

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