NTFS-3G FUSE Driver Sees First New Release In Four Years

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Kevin_Kofler@reddit

Looks like Tuxera is foreseeing their userbase completely evaporating with the new in-kernel NTFS driver and trying to save what can be saved by updating both the NTFS-3G FUSE driver and the NTFS3 kernel driver. But I think it is too little too late.

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WhoDoYou24@reddit

Does the new in-kernel driver have a utility such as ntfsfix? That is the only program which helped to clear bad sectors of an NTFS drive in Linux.

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Kevin_Kofler@reddit

The kernel driver itself, of course not, because this kind of utilities belongs in userspace. But the developer of the updated NTFS kernel driver has a fork of the ntfsprogs from NTFS-3G: https://github.com/ntfsprogs-plus/ntfsprogs-plus that has an actual ntfsck that claims to be able to fix much more problems than ntfsfix does:

[…] Those utilities are very useful, but ntfs-3g does not support filesystem check utility. They just support ntfsfix which is a utility that only fixes boot sector with mirror boot sector, and a rare bug case of Windows XP (called by self-located MFT), reset journal.

So, ntfsprogs-plus try to implement checking filesystem utility which is named ntfsck. You may think ntfsck is a linux version of chkdsk of Windows. […]

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God_Hand_9764@reddit

Why would you not update a thing in 4 years and then give a crap if people stop using it?

Seems kind of strange to me... but yeah I think that's a wrap for this driver.

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w2qw@reddit

NTFS3 and NTFS-3G are both developed by companies that provide commercial NTFS implementations.

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JockstrapCummies@reddit

Just Tuxera Things™

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Dwedit@reddit

When will it have the compression plugin built-in? It's a pain that most distros don't automatically provide it. Hats off to Fedora for automatically providing it.

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garywilli@reddit

We can use NTFS compression on Fedora? I didn't know that

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Dwedit@reddit

It's read-only on Linux.

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Heavy_Boss_1467@reddit

Changes:

Fix bashism in configure script causing errors in non-bash shells.
(mkntfs) Enable microsecond-level volume creation time.
Fix two instances of an invalid errno state when encountering NULL in strings.
Fix a crash when a reparse tag could not be found in the index.
Fix incorrect MFT free records value when bitmap is expanded.
Fix 'extras' manpages being installed when extras are disabled.
Fix various instances of use-after-free conditions in the library and tools.
Fix typo in NTFS hibernation message. Thanks to Anil Kumar for the report/fix.
Escape commas in the fsname when libfuse 2.8 or higher is used.
(ntfsclone) Allow adjusting the sector size in the NTFS boot sector for the target device when restoring images.
Remove libdl dependency when building without external plugins.
(ntfsinfo) Show information about the logfile state when dumping metadata.
(ntfsinfo) Fix displaying crowded directories or indexes.
(ntfsinfo) Fix displaying the security descriptor list in ntfsinfo.
Fix heap buffer overflow when POSIX ACLs were enabled (CVE-2026-40706). Thanks to Andrea Bocchetti for the report.
(ntfsusermap) Fix overflow when constructing backup filename.
Fix two time-of-check-time-of-use conditions.
Fix missing malloc/sscanf return value checks.

https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/releases/tag/2026.2.25