NTFS Read/Write Support Finally here!, Instructions!! Options

[homer007]

updated see the first post!!!

[oldschool]

I don´t get my external firewire hdd automounted...
I removed the apple ntfs and installed this release.
The internal drives ntfs parttitions are working correctly.


Rgds.


Fixed: I had to correct the pt via windows... worx now.

This post has been edited by oldschool: Jan 25 2007, 09:52 AM

[Cyman]

My drives seem to be automounted even though I didn't type any of the automount commands in Terminal. BTW, the HDD I connected to my MBP is connected via eSATA ExpressCard/34.

@homer007: I don't want to criticize your efforts to post instructions on how to get the whole thing to work, but as I see you just copied all the How-To's from the other related topics and put them here. It would be fine if you could summarize these How-To's with a common structure as all of the previously posted instructions describe things in different ways which makes it a lot harder to follow your guide if you don't split up the different instructions into sections.

This post has been edited by Cyman: Jan 20 2007, 04:50 PM

[jarodsix]

OK, tried the newest packages (clean install).

1. installed, rebooted, volumes automount by themselves (no editing of anything) - nice
2. they are as network drives - not nice, trash doesn't work (i.e. "files will be removed immediately, OK Cancel")
3. spotlight stopped working / behaves badly
4. on restart it says "ntfs-3g doesn't respond to SIGTERM" or sth like that. Causes a 10 secs shutdown/restart lag.

Is there a way to set which volumes I want to be mounted read only (e.g. XP partition) as opposed to the default RW (data partition)?

This post has been edited by jarodsix: Jan 20 2007, 06:25 PM

[Cyman]

Is it possible that I cannot mount the partitions from my second drive as long as I didn't apply the same commands to them? I guess it has something to do with the new NTFS driver replacing the Apple one, so it can't mount them read-only, is this right?

[caracols]

My NTFS partition is working perfectly on the read+write side. But I've just discovered that creating file bigger than 4gb size may render the system unstable, then after rebooting, that file will be mostly corrupt.

I discovered that by downloading a 6gb torrent directly -with Azureus OS X- into the NTFS partition. In the creation process, system halted after heavy disk activity.

Booting into windows, then doing a CHKDSK on that partition will erase the file then the partition will be useable again on OSX.

This post has been edited by caracols: Jan 22 2007, 10:02 PM

[jarodsix]

My NTFS partition is working perfectly on the read+write side. But I've just discovered that creating file bigger than 4gb size may render the system unstable, then after rebooting, that file will be mostly corrupt.

I discovered that by downloading a 6gb torrent directly -with Azureus OS X- into the NTFS partition. In the creation process, system halted after heavy disk activity.

Booting into windows, then doing a CHKDSK on that partition will erase the file then the partition will be useable again on OSX.

I reported this issue to the macfuse project at http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/issues/de...mp;can=2&q= (see comments)
and they have already done sth with it - going to try now.

As for the 4GB thing, some relevant things were changed in the newest release (MacFUSE Core 0.1.7). Please
upgrade and see if the > 4GB stuff works fine.

[ChuckDSanders]

Ok it was working, then it started to crap out, then it stopped all together.

Ok, So I have 3 NTFS partitions that I want to share between OSX and shitty P (XP). I installed the dmg files that homer pointed me towards and I restarted and like magic I had access to my drives. Well, after a few restarts one or more the of drives will appear as the others, but upon selecting them to open, it won't do it. Now, the drives don't even show up on the desktop. When I go into disk manager it shows the disks, however I can't open them, nor dismount them because it says there is another program assessing them. I am assuming this is because the NTFS programs is playing with them. Anyone else run into this? Anyone got any ideas to get it working? I have tried uninstalling the NTFS dmg and reinstalling both fuse and the NTFS portion to no avail, and I did remember to remove the old components before hand. I am going to fiddle with it. Off to class I go. Take care and thank you very much You'll rock as they say in the south

[caracols]

Thanks for the info jarodsix! Tried the new MacFUSE and it solved the problem. Also fixed some tiny problems related to the available size the disk was -wrongly- reporting. Cool.

[Zoloco]

I installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G to access a Western Digital Passport drive (USB-NTFS Formated). Installation went smooth and the drive is mounted on every reboot.

The bad thing is that the transfer speed is sooooo slow, like usb 1.1 or lower slow. Does anybody know if this has been fixed or if there is a way to make a rollback?

If I can't take full advantage, I might as well uninstall it.

BTW... it is a great thing to be able to read/write on NTFS partitions.

[homer007]

Updated again see the first post!! the new update should resolve alot of problems that you were having!!

This post has been edited by homer007: Jan 24 2007, 06:11 PM

[equilibriumuk]

I just wanted to say thanks for the links

I can finally write to my xp disk, share my iTunes library with a symlink and write to my external USB hard drive

[esquilo22]

I can't install the NTFS-3G package. I've installed MacFUSE 0.1.7 fine but when I try to install NTFS-3g 20070116-R4 it can't find MacFUSE on my TIGER disk.

I know MacFUSE is working because I'm able to use SSH and Spotlight file systems.

Any thoughts?

UPDATE

@Homer007,

The NTFS-3g installer is looking for MacFUSE.pkg receipt under /Library/Receipts. But the installer provided by Google generates the "MacFUSE CORE.pkg" receipt.

Please update this for version R5. And thanks for the great work.

This post has been edited by esquilo22: Jan 25 2007, 01:21 AM

[syldaril]

I have installed both MacFUSE-Core-0.1.7 and NTFS-3G 20070116-r4. Rebooted. However I cannot write to my NTFS partition at all. I get this error message no matter what I try to write to it:
"The item 'xxxx' cannot be copied because there is not enough free space" even though I have around 90GB available. Also all the files on my NTFS partition have a 0kb size. Odd, I hope someone can help me out with this!
I need to mention that I am running OSX and XP on the same drive. OSX on first partition, XP on second.

Syldaril

[salax]

Hi there,
Has anybody got any idea wether FUSE can mount SFS volumes? (meaning Microsan SFS)
I haven't found any reference to this in documentation as of yet, and by the way, if anyone knows of any other way to support SFS please let me know.
Thanks

[U.C.]

Thanks Homer, just tried the latest packages. They seem to be better, even though a manual rename is required of receipts.


EDIT: Also small files get written on NTFS but large files (200MB) complain about free space. I think I will go back to older version.

This post has been edited by Unstable Connection: Jan 25 2007, 03:29 PM

[sordos]

i can t install NTFS-3G 20070116-r4
when i can instal
i only can in the NTFS partition and they are read only

sorry for my bad english

thx in advance

in spanish

no puedo instalar NTFS-3G 20070116-r4
Tengo inslado el macfuse y cuando quiero instalar NTFS-3G 20070116-r4 la unica opcion que tengo son las particiones ntfs y como son read only no tengo opcion de instalacion
Alguieb sabe la sloucion???
gracias

[homer007]

another update guys more issues fixed!!!

[cyclonefr]

still the 0 Kb prob so i have to restart the finder at each boot
im using ur package + core 0.17

[B612]

Has any of you guys tried to read international characters, like Japanese, Russian, etc?

Well, it doesn't work properly, unless we modify the locale setting.
For instance, since I am Italian, I should write
locale=it_IT

The problem is that in this last version of ntfs-3g, I don't know where to write this setting and how to modify it.
Does anybody know it??!?

EDIT: Never-mind, I've done it!

This post has been edited by B512: Jan 27 2007, 11:02 PM