Editing NTFS (section)

=== Linux ===
[[Linux kernel]] versions 2.1.74 and later include a driver written by Martin von Löwis which has the ability to read NTFS partitions;<ref name="LinuxNTFSCredits">{{cite web |title=NTFS Credits and History |url=https://flatcap.org/linux-ntfs/misc.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924232137/https://flatcap.org/linux-ntfs/misc.html |archive-date=2021-09-24 |accessdate=2021-09-24 |work=Linux-NTFS Project}}</ref> kernel versions 2.5.11 and later contain a new driver written by Anton Altaparmakov ([[University of Cambridge]]) and Richard Russon which supports file read.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://lwn.net/2002/0502/kernel.php3 | title=Kernel development | date=2 May 2002 | work=lwn.net | accessdate=2021-09-05 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ChangeLog-2.5.11 | title=Release notes for v2.5.11 | date=29 April 2002 | accessdate=2021-09-05 }}</ref><ref name=LinuxNTFSCredits /> The ability to write to files was introduced with kernel version 2.6.15 in 2006 which allows users to write to existing files but does not allow the creation of new ones.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_15 | title=2.6.15 changelog | date=3 January 2006 | work=Linux project | access-date=2021-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905125357/https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_15 |archive-date=2021-09-05 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Paragon's NTFS driver (see below) has been merged into kernel version 5.15, and it supports read/write on normal, compressed and sparse files, as well as journal replaying.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/github_merges_useless_garbage_says/|title=GitHub merges 'useless garbage' says Linus Torvalds as new NTFS support added to Linux kernel 5.15|date=2021-09-06|access-date=2021-09-07|website=The Register|last=Anderson|first=Tim}}</ref>

[[NTFS-3G]] is a free [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]-licensed [[Filesystem in Userspace|FUSE]] implementation of NTFS that was initially developed as a Linux kernel driver by Szabolcs Szakacsits. It was re-written as a FUSE program to work on other systems that FUSE supports like [[macOS]], FreeBSD, NetBSD, [[OpenBSD]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131108082749&mode=expanded&count=2 |title=OpenBSD adds fuse(4) support for adding file systems in userland |publisher=[[OpenBSD Journal]] |date=2013-11-08 |access-date=2013-11-08}}</ref> Solaris, [[QNX]], and [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntfs-3g.org/|title=NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver |date=2009-07-25}}</ref> and allows reading and writing to NTFS partitions. A performance enhanced commercial version of NTFS-3G, called "[[Tuxera]] NTFS for Mac", is also available from the NTFS-3G developers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/ |title=Tuxera NTFS for Mac |date=August 30, 2011 |access-date=September 20, 2011 |publisher=Tuxera}}</ref>

[[Captive NTFS]], a 'wrapping' driver that uses Windows' own driver {{mono|ntfs.sys}}, exists for Linux. It was built as a [[Filesystem in Userspace]] (FUSE) program and released under the GPL but work on Captive NTFS ceased in 2006.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ | title=Jan Kratochvil: Captive: The first free NTFS read/write filesystem for GNU/Linux | access-date=2020-06-15 }}</ref>

Linux kernel versions 5.15 onwards carry NTFS3, a fully functional NTFS Read-Write driver which works on NTFS versions up to 3.1 and is maintained primarily by the [[Paragon Software Group]].