The
mount_ntfs command attaches the NTFS filesystem residing on the device
special to the global filesystem namespace at the location indicated by
node. Both
special and
node are converted to absolute paths before use. 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 supported NTFS versions include both NTFS4, as used by Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, and NTFS5, as used by Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP.
The options are as follows:
-a
Force behaviour to return MS-DOS 8.3 names also on readdir().
-i
Make name lookup case insensitive for all names except POSIX names.
-u uid
Set the owner of the files in the file system to uid. The default owner is the owner of the directory on which the file system is being mounted.
-g gid
Set the group of the files in the file system to gid. The default group is the group of the directory on which the file system is being mounted.
-m mask
Specify the maximum file permissions for files in the file system.