Enable NTFS Read / Write in Snow Leopard

[piyush chavla]

hi
i am using Snow Leopard on my mac now my problem is i can not read my windows portable disk with ntfs file system on Snow Leopard, but i want to how i can able to Read/Write NTFS in Snow Leopard ? please help me
thank you

[Zindin]

I think NTFS-3G driver can help you .The NTFS-3G driver is a freely and commercially available and supported read / write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP , Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows file systems 7.

NTFS-3G develops, tests and materials quality is trustable, feature rich and high performance solution for hardware platforms and operating systems Whose users need to reliably interoperate with NTFS. get it from ntfs-3g.org

[Dr. V]

• Open Terminal.app
• Type diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name
• copy the Volume UUID (bunch of numbers).
• Backup /etc/fstab
• Type sudo nano /etc/fstab.
• Type UUID=paste_the_uuid_here none ntfs rw or LABEL=volume_name none ntfs rw
• Repeat for other NTFS partitions.
• Save the file
• restart
• done

[MrChris-]

You can read NTFS on Mac OS X, but what is the writing you have to go through a third style driver ntfs-3g or Paragon NTFS. With Snow Leopard there is no need for more drivers, you can write on NTFS based only with default option .For this, we just need the Terminal.

At first if you have a driver for writing to the NTFS installed, uninstall it.

Then we will retrieve the UUID of the disk where you want to write:

diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name

Find the line containing the UUID and copy.

It continues by checking if the file / etc / fstab are:

ls / etc / | grep $ fstab

On a default installation file does not exist, but if you have a driver it probably exists, if so made a backup.

cp / etc / fstab ~ / Desktop /

Finally we will edit the file / etc / fstab, create it for those who have not.
I am takingf the fstab file and not fstab.hd!

sudo nano / etc / fstab

It adds this line:
UUID = uuid_volume none ntfs rw
If you do not have the UUID of the disk you can add this line instead (possible on an external drive):
LABEL = volume_name none ntfs rw

save, CTRL + X followed by Y

Last step, reboot.
Here, you should now be able to write to your NTFS without third driver
Note the reactivity of the thing, better than ntfs-3g and management of several attributes, including hidden files.

Note that this trick is valid only for Mac OS 10.6 and works interchangeably in kernel 32-bit or 64-bit.