Mac OS X Snow Leopard Native NTFS
April 06, 2010 0
This is experimental, and known to be unstable, use at your own risk.
- I am sure many of you heard that Snow Leopard was supposed to have native read/write for NTFS partitions. Apple supported NTFS R/W in older SL builds but I guess decided to not to go with it for some reason, however support is still present.
- For this, you need to modify your /etc/fstab file to mount NTFS partitions for read and write.
- First, uninstall NTFS-3G/Paragon if installed.
- Open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
- Type "diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name" and copy the Volume UUID (bunch of numbers).
- Backup /etc/fstab if you have it, shouldn't be there in a default install.
- Type "sudo nano /etc/fstab".
- Type in "UUID=paste_the_uuid_here none ntfs rw" or "LABEL=volume_name none ntfs rw" (if you don't have UUID for the disk).
- Repeat for other NTFS partitions.
- Save the file (ctrl-x then y) and restart your system.
- After reboot, NTFS partitions should natively have read and write support. This works in both 32 and 64-bit kernels. Support is quite good and fast, it even recognizes file attributes such as hidden files.
- Alternative Method by iBlacky:
- Rename the original /sbin/mount_ntfs tool:
- sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig
- Create a script like this:
- #!/bin/sh
- /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig -o rw "$@“
- save the script to /sbin/mount_ntfs
- sudo chown root:wheel /sbin/mount_ntfs
- sudo chmod 755 /sbin/mount_ntfs
- Enjoy R/W access to NTFS volumes…
- In case you don't like it
- sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig /sbin/mount_ntfs
- and everything is back to R/O.
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