Linux NTFS file system support / News: Recent posts

This is the first release of the Linux-LDM package.
It is available at:

http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13956

Documentation, also very rough, is available at:

http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ldm

The package contains:

* A simple tool to dump the LDM information
* A Linux kernel driver to partition LDM volumes.

The driver works, but needs lots more testing.
The tool is primarily to test the driver.... read more

Linux-NTFS 1.0.0 stable is here.
The most important changes are: introduction of a feature rich Linux mkntfs utility (including man page), which formats NTFS partitions, as well as a logical disk manager database dump utility which displays the contents of the LDM database of Windows 2000/XP dynamic disks under Linux.
Also, the logfile dumper has been expanded to dump everything we understand of the logfile and a new dumplog is introduced which operates on a file rather than a partition.

Linux-NTFS 1.0.0 is around the door and this is to announce that CVS is now feature frozen. Only bug fix commits are allowed. Some testing is required now before 1.0.0 goes gold.
The most important changes are: introduction of a feature rich Linux mkntfs utility (including man page), which formats NTFS partitions, as well as a logical disk manager database dump utility which displays the contents of the LDM database of Windows 2000/XP dynamic disks under Linux.

The tools allow you to view and manipulate an NTFS Volume. They've been updated for use with Linux 2.4. Martin von Lwis has kindly agreed to let us host the tools here, under CVS control.

This is the Original Documentation, compiled by Rgis Duchesne.
There are a couple of FAQs that are still relevant,
but the docs are mainly provided for historical interest.

The Original Documentation set is available at:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/regis

The new, derived, documention set is available at:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs

I'm pleased to announce the first version of the LDM Documentation.

Windows 2000 introduced a new partitioning scheme and with it, the
Logical Disk Manager. Like Linux's Logical Volume Manager is allows
changes to partitioning, and volumes, to be made without rebooting.
To create Mirrored, Spanned, Striped or RAID disks under Win2K, you
must use their "Dynamic Disks".

Unfortunately Linux cannot read these Dynamic Disks. Yet.... read more

The first release (0.0.1) is here! Most importantly, it includes the ntfsfix utility which repairs some of the damage done by the linux ntfs driver when writing to ntfs partitions.