ntfsmftalloc command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ntfsmftalloc command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ntfsmftalloc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ntfsmftalloc: command not found

In Ubuntu ntfsmftalloc is provided by ntfs-3g-dev package.

ntfs-3g-dev is:

NTFS-3G uses FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) to provide support for the NTFS filesystem used by Microsoft Windows.

This package contains the development files.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ntfs-3g-dev

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ntfs-3g-dev.

sudo apt -y install ntfs-3g-dev

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ntfs-3g-dev

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ntfsmftalloc command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.