mount_ntfs(8)

mount_ntfs8

Mount an ntfs file system

Usage

mount_ntfs [-s] [-o options] special node

Overview

The mount_ntfs command attaches the NTFS file system residing on the device special to the global file system namespace at the location indicated by node. This command is normally executed by mount(8) at boot time, but can be used by any user to mount an NTFS file system on any directory that they own (provided, of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that contains the file system).

The options are as follows:

-s

Mount the volume using case sensitive semantics. This means that you can create files that have names that only differ in case such as for example "foo" and "Foo". Without this option the volume is mounted using case insensitive semantics in which case if you create a file with name "foo" you then cannot create a file named "Foo" or rather if you do create a file named "Foo" it would overwrite the existing file "foo".

-o

Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separated string of options. See the mount(8) man page for possible options and their meanings.

Releases

145 releases since Mac OS X 10.3; the text changed 3 times.

  1. 10.3–10.3.9
  2. 10.4–10.4.11
  3. 10.5–10.5.8
  4. 10.6–26.5

-o since Mac OS X 10.5; -s since Mac OS X 10.6.

-W until Mac OS X 10.3.9; -a until Mac OS X 10.4.11.x86; -g until Mac OS X 10.4.11.x86; -i until Mac OS X 10.3.9; -m until Mac OS X 10.4.11.x86; -u until Mac OS X 10.4.11.x86.

History

This NTFS implementation first appeared in Mac OS X 10.5.

Authors

This NTFS implementation was written by Anton Altaparmakov ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From ntfs 168 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.