Unlock NTFS write support in SL (updated on 04/10/09) - Page 3

vladrxpx · #21 10-02-2009, 04:19 PM

paragon beta version that is said to work can't even find ntfs drives
edit: http://www.paragon-software.com/home...uirements.html here it says you need SL in 32bit mode. so i guess they dont have support for 64bit..

thank you bloodiator for the link, ntfsmounter works great but at 'get info' it shows that i have custom access? 20 seconds later, i was typing in safari, and firs safari crashed, i've had this loopy icon as a cursor.. then finder crashed on me too.. at that point, I had no choice but to restart. this also happened when i was using the fstab edit...

at this point, i think SL has no stable support for NTFS write whatsoever.. really bummed :C

x986123 · #22 10-02-2009, 11:13 PM

Mine started crashing after a while to. I reinstalled and everything fine =D

slic · #23 10-03-2009, 11:11 AM

Hi, there is way

How to enable built-in support for writing to NTFS, once and forever.

1. Open terminal and type this command
sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig

2. Then open file mount_ntfs with nano editor by typing this command
sudo nano /sbin/mount_ntfs

3. Now enter these 2 lines of text
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig -o rw "$@"

4. Press Control + X then Y and Enter for Exit and Save!

5. Type these 2 commands
sudo chown root:wheel /sbin/mount_ntfs
sudo chmod 755 /sbin/mount_ntfs

Congratz! Now, any NTFS disk connected to your Mac is writable.

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vladrxpx · #24 10-03-2009, 05:44 PM

slic, your hacking skills seem to amaze me every time i see your post on any issue.

thnx for solving this!

I'll report if there is any problem on this matter.

this edit seems to work well right now.
i just hope it wont crash again..since im using 64bit SL.

xxhellfirexx · #25 10-04-2009, 05:17 AM

This NTFS built in read and write capability is impressive. However, I want to modify this fstab command some more so I can force my HFS+ journaled USB to be read only, but I can't seem to get it to work. Here is what I did in terminal.

cd /etc
sudo nano /etc/fstab
UUID=2FD74A3F-090E-33B5-825A-4B1E9B96A24D none hfs ro,auto 0 0
ctrl+O
ctrl+X
reboot machine.

Did anyone try this? If you did and were successful, please tell me what you put for your fstab file.

Thanks.

MonkeyDLuffy · #26 10-04-2009, 05:29 AM

How come that you have UUID for your NTFS partitions/drives in Disk Utility? Mine doesn't have that information. I only get UUID from my Mac OS partition. I currently have Macfuse and NTFS-3G installed which is so damned slow! I'm willing to try the helpful post but I can't even start without a UUID.

Name : Windows 7
Type : Volume

Disk Identifier : disk1s1
Mount Point : /Volumes/Windows 7
File System : Windows NT Filesystem (NTFS-3G)
Connection Bus : SATA
Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/IDE1@1F,2/SECD@1
Writable : Yes
Capacity : 214.96 GB (214,958,080,000 Bytes)
Free Space : 185.22 GB (185,219,973,120 Bytes)
Used : 29.74 GB (29,738,102,784 Bytes)
Number of Files : 108,884
Number of Folders : 0
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : No
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : No
Supports Journaling : No
Journaled : No
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 1

EDIT: NEVERMIND, I just needed to uninstall Macfuse + NTFS-3G to make the UUID to show up.

@SLIC: Pretty neat trick. It is working right now. I'm on SL 64-bit. I hope it is stable. Look stable thought.

Snow · #27 10-04-2009, 07:36 AM

Thx Slic! added your info to the guide!

myska · #28 10-04-2009, 09:10 AM

@slic
Many thanks for this tip. Works great with SL x64!

vladrxpx · #29 10-04-2009, 01:08 PM

ok, so i had some time to test this out.

turns out i have this delayed restart and sometimes shutdown crashes, where i get the blue screen and the black loopy icon (maybe whenever im saving files to NTFS part.). at this point, i can only force restart or shutdown by pressing the button.

at windows boot, i get the disk check, again :/

maybe this fix works only for real macintosh. i have no freaking idea why it wont work fully on 64bit SL...

eMatoS · #30 10-04-2009, 03:42 PM

I've tried that workaround but had some problems too, slow shutdown (sometimes it wouldn't shutdown at all) copied a small file and then couldn't open it. So I'm back to paragon, it seems a bit slow but it works just fine.