Free Software EFI Drivers (original) (raw)

Free Software EFI/UEFI file system drivers

The purpose of this page is to provide Free Software UEFI components, such as a read-only NTFS, XFS or exFAT EFI drivers, or more exotic ones such as Amiga FFS/SFS, BFS, UFS, ZFS, courtesy of the GRUB project, as well as other goodies.

Download

The following links include binaries for AFFS (Amiga Fast FileSystem), BFS (BeOS FileSystem), Btrfs, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, EROFS, F2FS, HFS and HFS+ (Mac OS, including compression support), ISO9660, JFS (Journaled FileSystem), nilfs2, NTFS (including compression support), ReiserFS, SFS (Amiga Smart FileSystem), UDF, UFS/FFS, UFS2/FFS2, XFS, ZFS and more. These drivers were transparently compiled using a Linux/gcc/EDK2 environment:

You can also find a read/write NTFS driver (based on ntfs-3g) HERE.

System Requirements:

A computer or virtual machine with a UEFI firmware.

Usage

Download the driver and copy it to a partition that you can access from an UEFI Shell.
Then, from the UEFI Shell, issue a command such as:

load ntfs_x64.efi map -r

After the map command has been executed, you should be able to access your NTFS partitions.

Feedback

To provide feedback, report a bug or request an enhancement please use the github issue tracker. Or you can send an e-mail.

License

GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.
You are free to distribute, modify or even sell the software, insofar as you respect the GPLv3 license.

Changelog

Version 1.12 (2026.03.27)
- Add XFS v5 support and update GRUB to v2.14 (courtesy of Andrij Abyzov)
- Update gnu-efi to latest
  NOTE: This will be the last release to provide 32-bit ARM drivers. ARM64 is unaffected.
Other Versions

Source Code

EfiFs 1.12 source.
Alternatively, you can clone the git repository using:
$ git clone https://github.com/pbatard/EfiFs.git
For more information, see the GitHub project.

If you are a developer, you are very much encouraged to tinker with the sourcecode and submit patches.