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Brief description :

Linux driver gives us a chance to interface with an NTFS filesystem. Thanks to this driver, we can use built-in Linux commands on an NTFS filesystem.

Ex : ls, chown, chmod, cd, locate, rm, ln etc.

Question :

Where can I find this source code ?

Why :

Try to be familiar with NTFS

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Just to be clear, ls, locate etc. have nothing to do with ntfs itself. These utilities use systemcalls to get their information. – Ulrich Dangel Jun 7 '12 at 16:12

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If you are using the in kernel NTFS driver, your distro may have a kernel source package, which you can install and poke around. It is usually installed to /usr/src

If you used the ntfs-3g driver, the code is here: NTFS-3G Tarball

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which one is driver for ntfs in /usr/src ? – user1423470 Jun 7 '12 at 13:33
I have looked in NTFS-3G tarball, but I could not see implementation of locate. I am looking also source code of locate, ln, rmdir for ntfs. – user1423470 Jun 7 '12 at 13:38
@user1423470 locate is an external utility, unrelated to NTFS. – Chris Down Jun 7 '12 at 16:39
I agree with Chris Down. I believe that locate, ln, rmdir are not dependedent on a specific FS. In other words, I believe they are written to work with any file system. – bigdaveyl Jun 7 '12 at 17:17
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NTFS driver is found inside the fs/ntfs folder in the linux kernel source tree.

Find the code here : http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.5.3/fs/ntfs/

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