Where is NTFS3?

General Discussion
1

I can’t mount my ntfs drives with NTFS3, only with ntfs-3g fuse. Is there a bundle that I have to download ?

TY

2

Try :

sudo swupd bundle-add ntfs-utilities

3

Try with:

sudo swupd bundle-add storage-utils
4

It does not exist.

sudo swupd bundle-add ntfs-utilities
Loading required manifests…
Warning: Bundle “ntfs-utilities” is invalid, skipping it…
Failed to install 1 of 1 bundles

5

It’s already installed. Putting in fstab or trying to mount to NTFS3 (and not ntfs-3g) doesn’t work at all, as if it doesn’t exist.

6

How do you try to mount it??

Like this?

/dev/NTFS-part		/mnt/windows	ntfs-3g	defaults	0	0
7

Well yes but I’m talking about NTFS3 and not ntfs-3g which are different things. ntfs-3g works but not NTFS3

8

It does not include in the initrd. It does not compile by default.

You can check it: linux/config at 551f0d9d6a2679db0bdb6cd0f9692bfcc5cacd02 · clearlinux-pkgs/linux · GitHub at line 9451

# CONFIG_NTFS3_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set

If you want to include it, you should modify and compile it.

9

How do I do this ? I’m new on linux I just tested Arch before and I used NTFS3 without issues. Do you have any tutorial or ressources so that I can do this ?

10

You could follow this guide: Kernel development — Documentation for Clear Linux* project

11

The ClearMod project enables NTFS3.

Extract taken from the spec file.

# NTFS3 is a kernel NTFS implementation, which offers much faster
# performance than the NTFS-3G FUSE based implementation.
# Note: ntfs3 requires the file system type to mount.
# e.g. mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sdxY /mnt
# https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS

scripts/config -m NTFS3_FS
scripts/config -d NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER
scripts/config -e NTFS3_LZX_XPRESS
scripts/config -e NTFS3_FS_POSIX_ACL
12

Thanks but what is ClearMod/XanMod ? A modified kernel ? Will it get automatically updated when doing swupd update ? And will it be maintained (I guess your the maintainer of this projet). Also I think I’ve seen you on the CachyOS discord posting benchmarks and everything, do you think there is a way to enable sch_ext on Clear ? Sorry if I asked too many questions lol.

13

No. Kindly ask the Clear team to enable NTFS3_FS, NTFS3_LZX_XPRESS, and NTFS3_FS_POSIX_ACL in their native kernel.

No. The ClearMod repo is in archived state.

Not tried.