Paragon NTFS for Linux 7.0 is a commercial Linux kernel driver for rapid and transparent read/write access to NTFS volumes. The Professional Edition includes the fully functional NTFS for Linux driver, complementary support, a driver to mount Microsoft Dynamic Volumes/Software RAID, and additional utilities to check partition integrity, defragment, wipe, create NTFS volumes and perform other NTFS file system related tasks from your Linux OS
Easy installation - a script file is available which can build a driver, install it, automatically mount all local NTFS volumes and place them into fstab to automount them at Linux startup
Full read-write access. With most Unlike of the competing drivers where you can only read from NTFS volumes, here you can also write - modify existing files, delete files, create or copy files
Linux kernels 2.4.X, 2.6.X support
Low system requirements
Supports all kinds of Windows Dynamic Volumes (simple, spanned, striped, mirrored and RAID5 volumes) and Software RAID via Paragon LDM (Logical Disk Manager) driver
Additional powerful utilities
Additional bootable disk. This disk is very helpful in emergency cases of unbootable systems - you can boot your system with this disk and access NTFS and Linux volumes with read and write access - take important documents or change configuration files to rescue system
Mount any NTFS volume like any native one, even including to fstab (to automount at each Linux startup)
64 Bit architecture support
Supporting NTFS features (see also "limitations")
NTFS versions 1.2, 3.0 and 3.1 (Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista)
compressed files
files and folders with security permissions
sparse files support (NTFS)
File and folder names in national languages (you can pass filesystem codepage name to driver), including Asian languages
No system degradation during data transfer
Support for SMP kernels (multiprocessor systems)
High performance - transfer rate is the same as for native File systems
There is no any limitation to maximum file and volume size (except within the kernel and NTFS limitations)
Additional Utilities:
cpntfs utility - is a simple and fast Paragon NTFS for Linux backup/copy utility that allows the user to copy and restore files, directories to/from/between NTFS partitions under Linux OS. The utility can be useful to make backups of NTFS file system and restore it later on the same or a newly formatted NTFS partition
chkntfs utility checks NTFS partition integrity and fixes errors, creates and displays a status report about the NTFS file system
mkntfs utility allows you to format any partition under Linux
infntfs utility shows NTFS version, used space, NTFS volume label, dirty flag, serial number and allows you to change them
fsutil utility is a Linux utility which you can use to perform many NTFS related tasks, such as managing file system information, additional streams, compression, hardlinks etc.
dfntfs utility enables you to defragment a NTFS volume
wipe utility allows you to fill up free space on NTFS/FAT volumes with zeros
mftpack utility allows you to pack/truncate MFT (MasterFileTable) on a NTFS volume
hdlnk utility allows to enumerate all hard links on a NTFS volume
junction utility allows you to show reparse points on a NTFS volume
Additional Bootable Disk Components:
List of mounted partitions
Midnight Commander
Start the command line
Record files to CD/DVDs
Configure network connections
Log Saver
Limitations:
NTFS features: encrypted files are not supported. The Body of a file will be copied encrypted with loss of decryption capability. To make a full archive the cpntfs utility can be used.
Attributes to be lost:
when copying from NTFS to Linux FS: all streams will not be copied, along with compression flag and security attributes (use the cpntfs utility)
when copying from Linux FS to NTFS: all security attributes (access rights and ownership) will be lost
Hardlinks and symlinks: any link will be copied as a full file with its body while losing link information
*Complimentary support offers you installation assistance and free support for 60 consecutive calendar days - starting from your Paragon software and license date of purchase. Support requests are to be submitted via Paragon Web site only.