NTFS
From Wikipedia:
- NTFS (New Technology File System) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft. Starting with Windows NT 3.1, it is the default file system of the Windows NT family.
Since Linux 5.15, ntfs3 provides read and write support for the file system. All 公式サポートカーネル with versions 5.15 or newer are built with CONFIG_NTFS3_FS=m
and thus support it.
For kernels < 5.15, NTFS read and write support is provided by the NTFS-3G FUSE file system. Or you can use backported NTFS3 via ntfs3-dkmsAUR.
目次
Tips and tricks
Improving performance
You can enable some mount(8) options to improve the performance:
noatime
– can speed up the file system operations.prealloc
– decreases fragmentation in case of parallel write operations (most useful for HDD).
Known issues
Explicit file system type required to mount
ntfs3
requires explicit file system type to mount.
To be able to mount the file system, specify its type as ntfs3
. For example, using mount(8)'s -t
/--types
option:
# mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sdxY /mnt
Troubleshooting
unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
When mounting NTFS, you can encounter an error such as:
mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
See #Explicit file system type required to mount.
If you want to use ntfs3
as the default driver for ntfs
partitions, such udev rule does the trick:
/etc/udev/rules.d/ntfs3_by_default.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="ntfs", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}="ntfs3"
Although, this method is not recommended and can confuse some 3rd party tools.
udisks support
udisks supports NTFS3, but has some issues at the moment. See udisks ntfs3 PR and issue 932.
As a workaround, add a such option to /etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf
in [defaults]
section:
ntfs_defaults=uid=$UID,gid=$GID,noatime,prealloc
ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'
See #udisks support.
See also
- NTFS3 kernel documentation
- NTFS3 Driver FAQ – Paragon Software Group
- NTFS3 performance comparison