I am writing a program which can access a disk on the sector level. I was able to access files on a FAT32 formatted disk. I would like to know how I can use the NTFS-3G driver in my program so that I can access files on an NTFS formatted disk. Is NTFS-3G the solution to my problem?

Hi,


Accessing on the sector level is bypassing the file system, and whether it is FAT or NTFS makes no difference.

The purpose of ntfs-3g is accessing files stored on an NTFS formatted disk, so ntfs-3g must be the solution.
But, what is your operating system ?

Regards

Jean-Pierre

Thanks for the reply. My program is written in C, running on Fedora 10.

Hi,


ntfs-3g is available in standard Fedora 10, the latest update from Fedora 10 i386 is on
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/f ... 0.i386.rpm
A more recent version is available on http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ (you have to compile and install)

Regards

Jean-Pierre

Yes, I understand that it is included in Fedora 10. As I have mentioned, I was able to access the files from a FAT formatted disk by starting from the master boot record, the partition tables and then reading the file allocation tables. Can I use the same approach for NTFS disk? Can you give me an idea of how or where to start? Thanks.

Hi,


Yes, of course. You just have to reinvent ntfs-3g.

Just use ntfs-3g.

Regards

Jean-Pierre