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BodyText and/or HTML **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. [http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=785376][1] [1]: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=785376

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