10.6.3 NTFS R/W Support

[Bansaku]

Just a little easy fix to get full NTFS support in 10.6.3. This will not effect existing W7 installs and works great.

First, uninstall NTFS-3G/Paragon if installed.
Open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
Type "diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name" and copy the Volume UUID (bunch of numbers).
Backup /etc/fstab if you have it, shouldn't be there in a default install.
Type "sudo nano /etc/fstab".
Type in "UUID=paste_the_uuid_here none ntfs rw" or "LABEL=volume_name none ntfs rw" (if you don't have UUID for the disk).
Repeat for other NTFS partitions.
Save the file (ctrl-x then y) and restart your system.

After reboot, NTFS partitions should natively have read and write support. This works in both 32 and 64-bit kernels. Support is quite good and fast, it even recognizes file attributes such as hidden files, which can be annoying if you like a clean looking drive.

 

[tonymacx86]

Whoa- thanks Bansaku!

 

[donots06]

I know this was possible before 10.6.3 but was known to cause a lot of issues and was very unstable, I wonder if they fixed the problems in 10.6.3

 

[adamsmasher]

I know this was possible before 10.6.3 but was known to cause a lot of issues and was very unstable, I wonder if they fixed the problems in 10.6.3

I was just wondering this, too, since it was very problematic in the past. Hope they did!

 

[Bansaku]

Been transferring files to and from my W7 partition, with several boots into Windows and back and thus far, zero issues. The only problem I found was for me when I applied this fix(?) is that all of the files on the W7 drive vanished, however after a reboot into W7 all was good again and show up in OS X. I can rename the drive, change icons, add/delete files with no affect on any functionality in Windows or Finder. File transfer speed seems on par with my other SATA drives, so needless to say I am happy.

 

[jgv115]

Thanks! This is nice

 

[madguy]

Works. Thank you for killer tip

 

[rickette]

So you guys confirm that using 10.6.3, this method is far more reliable than before ?

 

[GrossmeisterB]

I tried this, but I have some problems:
I can't get the UUID, so I tried it with "LABEL=", but it doesn't work, I still can't delete/write to NTFS partitions...anyone got a clue what to do?

 

[rickette]

i used this method :
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=186460

but apparently it doesn't work very well.
I tried in 10.6 32 or 64bits, but the drives got messed up very often.
tested again for a week in 10.6.3 : still the same (tested in 64bits only)

the system is freezing after a while, and i can't reboot, the system hangs on the apple logo. I have to boot to windows one time, then reboot in SL to solve the problem each time.