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.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Anton Altaparmakov. All Rights Reserved.
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.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
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.TH NTFSPROGS 8 "November 2003" "Linux-NTFS version @VERSION@"
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libntfs-gnomevfs \- Module for GNOME VFS that allows access to NTFS filesystems.
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The GNOME virtual filesystem (VFS) provides universal access to different filesystems.
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module enables GNOME VFS aware clients to seamlessly utilize the NTFS library
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So you can access an NTFS filesystem without needing to use the NTFS utilities themselves
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(at least in theory anyway). In practice this is probably more useful for programs and
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programmers to make using
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easier, more generic, and to allow easier debugging of
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To be able to follow these examples you will need to have installed the test utilities
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from the gnome-vfs-2.4.x package. The easiest way to do this is to download and compile
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the gnome-vfs-2 package, e.g. download from:
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http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.4/2.4.0/sources/gnome-vfs-2.4.0.tar.gz
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Then run ./configure followed by make and make install (as root). This will install
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it into /usr/local so it should not conflict with your existing installation from
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rpm or deb packages which will be in /usr.
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Note you may also need to add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig
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(as root) to let your system see the installed gnome-vfs-2.4.x libraries.
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Then run ./configure followed by make and make install (as root) in the main
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directory to build and install the
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library which is used by the module.
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.SS Copying a file from an NTFS partition
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To copy the file autoexec.bat from the main directory of an NTFS partition (/dev/hda1)
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to the /tmp directory on your system you could run:
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/path/to/gnome-vfs-2.4.x/test/test-xfer file:///dev/hda1#libntfs:/autoexec.bat /tmp/autoexec.bat
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To copy a file from a directory inside the NTFS partition you would just specify the full path.
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So for example to copy the file win.ini from the Windows directory you would run:
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/path/to/gnome-vfs-2.4.x/test/test-xfer file:///dev/hda1#libntfs:/Windows/win.ini /tmp/win.ini
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.SS Shell access to an NTFS partition
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For debugging it is most useful to be able to do various things to the NTFS partition while it
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is being operated upon by
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This is achieved using the test-shell utility (from the gnome-vfs-2.4.x package) by running:
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/path/to/gnome-vfs-2.4.x/test/test-shell
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This drops you into the GNOME VFS shell from where you can now cd into the NTFS partition (/dev/hda1)
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by typing: cd file:///dev/hda1#libntfs:/
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You are now in the root directory of the NTFS partition. The first thing you will probably want to
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do is to type "ls" to display the directory contents.
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You could then change directories using the "cd" command, e.g. to enter the Windows directory you
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would type: cd Windows
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You can then open files, seek inside files, read from files (write is not enabled at present), etc
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thus exercising large portions of the NTFS library.
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Use the "help" command while in the shell to see the available commands.
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No bugs are known but there are several limitations at the moment:
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You cannot get information about files other than what the "ls" command
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in the test-shell can give you, i.e. the "info" command in the test-shell
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Further access to the partition is read-only and hence you cannot write
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to files. This will be changed in the future once the module has had
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There may be other limitations and possibly bugs. Please report any
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problems to the NTFS mailing list: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
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module was written by Jan Kratochvil. This man page was written by Anton Altaparmakov.
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package which contains the
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module can be downloaded from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
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These manual pages can be viewed online at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/man/ntfsprogs.html
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