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Posted by Jason Striegel | Saturday June 16th, 2007 9:19 PM
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HOWTO Read/Write to NTFS drives in OS X
If you want to share an external drive between a Mac and a
Windows machine, you typically formatthe drive with a FAT32
partition. One problem youll run into, however, is that you can run
into a filesize limit if youre dealing with really large files.
NTFS gets around this limitation, but unfortunatelythe OS X NTFS
driver only supports reading from NTFS partitions.
Thankfully, theres a NTFS Fuse driver which you can use with the
MacFUSE userspace filesystemdriver. It supports full read/write
capability, so you can use an external disk to swap large
filesbetween your Windows and Mac machines.
Its a bit of a pain to install, but heres the quick rundown:
Download and install MacFUSE LinkJust get the DMG file and run
the contained installer.
Download and install Fink. You need this for obtaining and
building the NTFS Fuse driver Link- run the installer within the
DMG file- drag the FinkCommander application to your Applications
folderGet NTFS Fuse driver. You need to configure Fink to use
unstable packages and then install thentfs-3g Fuse driver. Open a
terminal and run the following commands.- /sw/bin/fink configureUse
defaults, except answer YES to use the unstable tree- /sw/bin/fink
selfupdate- /sw/bin/fink index- /sw/bin/fink scanpackages-
/sw/bin/fink install ntfs-3gRebootMount your drive- First, make
sure its unmounted in disk utility (Applications/Utilities/Disk
Utility select drive click unmount)- Make a mount point: mkdir
/Volumes/ntfsdrive- Mount the drive: /sw/bin/ntfs-3g /dev/disk2s1
/Volumes/ntfsdriveReplace /dev/disk2s1 with your external drives
device. You can find this in Disk Utility.
The last step is all that youll need to repeat in the future to
connect to your NTFS drive. Afterexecuting the mount command, the
drive will appear on your desktop and you should be able towrite
files to it!
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