![]() Support is quite good and fast, and it even recognizes file attributes such as hidden files. This works with both 32- and 64-bit kernels. ![]() Save the file and quit nano (Control-X, Y, Enter), then restart your system.Īfter rebooting, NTFS partitions should natively have read and write support. Repeat the above steps for any other NTFS drives/partitions you have. The final line should look like this: UUID=123-456-789 none ntfs rw, where 123-456-789 is the UUID you copied in the first step. In the editor, type UUID=, then paste the UUID number you copied from the clipboard. From the output, copy the Volume UUID value to the clipboard.īack up /etc/fstab if you have it it shouldn't be there in a default install. In Terminal, type diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name, where volume_name is the name of the NTFS volume. Here's how to get read/write support for NTFS drives in Snow Leopard: First, uninstall NTFS-3G or Paragon if you're using either one. Here's how to get full read/write support for NTFS drives in Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard has the ability to mount NTFS volumes as read/write, but it's not enabled by default - just read only is supported, as in 10.5. Happy to do some testing and log posting if anyone has a test theory to try.ĩ/5/09 2:20:29 PM Disk Utility Disk Utility started.ĩ/5/09 2:22:38 PM Disk Utility Creating Image “test1-rw-disk-image.dmg”ĩ/5/09 2:22:38 PM Disk Utility Initializing…ĩ/5/09 2:22:38 PM Disk Utility Creating…ĩ/5/09 2:22:39 PM Disk Utility Formatting…ĩ/5/09 2:22:39 PM KernelEventAgent: sysctl_queryfs: No such file or directoryĩ/5/09 2:22:39 PM Disk Utility Attaching…ĩ/5/09 2:22:40 PM Disk Utility Finishing…ĩ/5/09 2:22:41 PM Disk Utility Image “test1-rw-disk-image.dmg” created successfully.ĩ/5/09 2:23:21 PM Disk Utility Creating Image “test2-sparse-disk-image.sparseimage”ĩ/5/09 2:23:21 PM Disk Utility Initializing…ĩ/5/09 2:23:21 PM Disk Utility Creating…ĩ/5/09 2:23:21 PM Disk Utility Formatting…ĩ/5/09 2:23:21 PM KernelEventAgent: sysctl_queryfs: No such file or directoryĩ/5/09 2:23:21 PM Disk Utility Attaching…ĩ/5/09 2:23:23 PM Disk Utility Finishing…ĩ/5/09 2:23:24 PM Disk Utility Image “test2-sparse-disk-image.sparseimage” created successfully.ĩ/5/09 2:24:04 PM Disk Utility Creating Image “test3-sparse-bundle-image.sparsebundle”ĩ/5/09 2:24:04 PM Disk Utility Initializing…ĩ/5/09 2:24:04 PM Disk Utility Creating…ĩ/5/09 2:24:04 PM Disk Utility Formatting…ĩ/5/09 2:24:05 PM Disk Utility Finishing…ĩ/5/09 2:24:05 PM Disk Utility Unable to create “test3-sparse-bundle-image.sparsebundle”.If you're running Snow Leopard, don't bother with various MacFUSE based solutions - NTFS support is built in, but disabled by default. I ran a test of various image types, and while Sparse Image works, Sparse Bundle fails. Intel / 10.5.8 attached to an SMB share from Ubuntu Linux. The problem is that I require to move some additional files onto the NTFS drive so I can reformat my backup driveĪs a side note mounting using "hdiutil attach -readonly" seems to partially resolve the issue the image will mount and stays mounted but it is read only. Moving the image back onto a HFS+ drive allows the image to be mounted. The disk image dose not see the be the source of the problem as any sparse bundle that opens fine on a HFS+ drive exhibits the behavior when moved onto the NTFS drive. I have no problems mounting the sparse bundle images from HFS+ drives or when using the NTFS drive read only using apples drivers instead of MacFuser+NTFS3G. However sparse bundle disk images will mount and then immediately dismount again. Read and write works fine on the NTFS drive, as do regular disk images and old style sparse disk images. Under 10.6 with the latest MacFuse and the latest NTFS-3G i have a very strange behavior. Under 10.5.7 with the latest MacFuse and and unknown version of NTFS-3G i had no problem using the sparse bundle images, they mounted, I could read and write, and the images where only unmounted when I explicitly ejected them. ![]() For this purpose i have the lend of a NTFS formatted external drive and used a large Sparse bundle disk image. I'm currently in the process of re-arranging my own backup setup following on from my recent update to Snow Leopard. ![]()
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