Recomp / OS & system / Windows
NTFS-3G
Read/write NTFS driver built from reverse engineering of the on-disk format, running in user space via FUSE.
Clean-room Human-led releasedStars1.5k
Commits, 30 days21
Latest release2026.9.28Sep 29, 2026
Last pushSep 29, 2026
Facts
- Original
- Microsoft NTFS file system (1993)
- Platform
- Windows
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Linux-NTFS project lineage what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- Tuxera
- Runs on
- Linux, macOS, BSD
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Download it from the official repository or website. No original files are needed.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by Tuxera. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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