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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 |
Mine started crashing after a while to. I reinstalled and everything fine =D
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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. ... ... ... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Thx Slic! added your info to the guide!
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@slic
Many thanks for this tip. Works great with SL x64! (Y) |
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... |
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.
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