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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only |
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config NTFS_FS |
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tristate "NTFS file system support" |
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select NLS |
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help |
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NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. |
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Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but |
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safe, write support available. For write support you must also |
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say Y to "NTFS write support" below. |
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There are also a number of user-space tools available, called |
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ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work |
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without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. |
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This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced |
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the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to |
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the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch |
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from the project web site. |
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For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst> |
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and <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/>. |
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To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the |
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module will be called ntfs. |
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If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to |
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Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. |
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config NTFS_DEBUG |
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bool "NTFS debugging support" |
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depends on NTFS_FS |
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help |
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If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say |
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Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be |
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performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to |
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be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are |
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disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 |
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at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option |
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to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, |
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you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): |
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echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug |
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Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. |
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If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little |
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overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant |
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slowdown of the system. |
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When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of |
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debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. |
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config NTFS_RW |
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bool "NTFS write support" |
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depends on NTFS_FS |
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help |
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This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. |
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The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without |
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changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or |
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renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to |
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so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot |
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be written to. |
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While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have |
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so far not received a single report where the driver would have |
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damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. |
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Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from |
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scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS |
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write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), |
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is not safe. |
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This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run |
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on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your |
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hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not |
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need its own partition. For more information see |
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<http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> |
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It is perfectly safe to say N here.
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