Update - 26th Jan 2007

There is no need to do all that mentioned below if you have undo it and just install these packages and your drives will be auto mounted with read/write after you restart!!!!


Ok guys new update use this Uninstaller to uninstall both MacFuse and NTFS-3g then install the new MacFuse + NTFS-3g included in this file click here and enjoy!!!




I will keep updating the packages when the new ones come out!!!


First Download the files below:

MacFUSE DMG Installer

NTFS-3g DMG Installer

Note: Before continuing this process, if you've attemped to install the NTFS package before:
(In Terminal):



Install the two dmg files (macfuse and NTFS-3g)

After installing open terminal and type the following:



Note: Before you do the following unmount all the NTFS drivers in Disk Utility


That just ensured that all the files are where they need to be. If you get "file exists"... that's fine!!!

Now that the prep work is done.. let's mount this drive already!!!

In Terminal:




<Replace "Your Windows Drive with w/e your drive is IN QUOTES.. "Windows XP" "Windows HD" >

Continuing on:

In Terminal (all in one command):



***NOTE*** in the /dev/disk0s1 -- replace this with the location of your Windows Drive, to find it, look in Disk Utility in Applications -> Utilities... and then the properties for your drive. Also, the "Your Windows Drive" is the same we discussed earlier IN QUOTES.


Now here comes the interesting part, now all you have to do is auto mount the partitions every time your Mac restarts!!

to do this do the following:

In terminal type:



add,

LABEL=NTFSxxx /private/mnt/NTFSxxx ntfs ro,noauto (replace NTFSxxx with real volume name)

close, save and exit

you can add another line like above if you have more then one NTFS Partitions!!

then type in terminal:



add after "/sbin/autodiskmount -va"

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
mkdir /Volumes/Storage (you can change storage to wot ever you wanna name your partition)
ntfs-3g /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/"Storage" -o ping_diskarb,volname="Storage"

Close, save and exit then reboot

If you have more then one ntfs paritions do something like this:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
mkdir /Volumes/Partition 1 (you can change partition 1 to wot ever you wanna name your partition)
mkdir /Volumes/Partition 2
ntfs-3g /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/"Partition 1" -o ping_diskarb,volname="Partition 1"
ntfs-3g /dev/disk0s2 /Volumes/"Partition 2" -o ping_diskarb,volname="Partition 2"

close, save, exit and restart

Enjoy!!!!

This post has been edited by homer007: Jan 26 2007, 02:59 PM