fstab filesystem type for NTFS — ‘ntfs’ or ‘ntfs-3g’?

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They’re identical – both use ntfs-3g in (current) Ubuntu; the ntfs utils are just symlinked to ntfs-3g.

# which mount.ntfs
/sbin/mount.ntfs
# which mount.ntfs-3g
/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g
# ls /sbin/mount.ntfs* -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2011-03-01 21:13 /sbin/mount.ntfs -> mount.ntfs-3g
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2011-03-01 21:13 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g -> /bin/ntfs-3g

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