Bug#998627: linux: please enable the new NTFS3 driver in 5.15
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:59:41 +0100 Heinz Repp <heinz.repp@arcor.de>
wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 22:34:25 +0100 Salvatore Bonaccorso
> <carnil@debian.org> wrote:
> > Are tools available to handle creation and checking of such NTFS3
> > filesystems? The last time I went to the paragon software site it
> > mentioned it was planning. This is not a must, but kept me for
> > slightly on the on hold position for enabling it.
>
> You mean you are holding back the DRIVER because you are missing
> USERSPACE utilities to handle and examine NTFS 3.1 filesystems?!?
>
> One has nothing to do with the other. There are a lot of NTFS
> utilities available with the ntfs-3g package, namely:
>
> > mkntfs
> > ntfscat
> > ntfsclone
> > ntfscluster
> > ntfscmp
> > ntfscp
> > ntfsdecrypt
> > ntfsfallocate
> > ntfsfix
> > ntfsinfo
> > ntfslabel
> > ntfsls
> > ntfsrecover
> > ntfsresize
> > ntfssecaudit
> > ntfstruncate
> > ntfsundelete
> > ntfswipe
>
> Nearly all of them (apart from ntfssecaudit cases) work on devices,
> not on mounted file systems, so the NTFS driver used is not in
> involved. An idea would be to split the ntfs-3g package into
> ntfs-3g-tools
> ntfs-3g-fusedriver
> libntfs-3g (on which the former depends)
>
> A Paragon donated mkfs.ntfs would be a nice thing, but mkntfs from
> ntfs-3g already fits for nearly all purposes. And I guess most people
> would want the new ntfs3 driver for filesystems created with Windows.
>
Hello,
ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs was merged to ntfs-3g. I think it would be better
if utilities package get it own old name.
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