mactogo Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 I need a little help here. I plan to have an NTFS partition sandwiched between the XP and MAC OSes so I can use it for both. Here's my set up: Partition 1: Windows XP NTFS (primary) Partition 2: DATA Files (NTFS) (primary) Partition 3: MAC OSX (primary,active) In OSX, the windows XP partition1 is mounted and visible on the desktop but Parition2 isn't. It's seen by disk utility but cannot be mounted. I've managed to do it before but strangely I can't seem to get it to work now. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20563-mounting-an-ntfs-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Something like that was happening to me when I was running OS X 10.4.5 (except that for me the partition wasn't between others but on a different HDD). I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that your partition is sandwitched between the others. What I noticed in my case was that if I had the partition too full (less than 1GB free space) or if the data on it was too fragmented, OS X didn't mount it. Fixing the permissions on OS X didn't help. Maybe the mounting is skipped if the acces time is longer than some fixed value... After updating to 10.4.6, the problem is gone (although I have less than 400MB free on that partition now). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20563-mounting-an-ntfs-partition/#findComment-135785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactogo Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 You may have a point. In my case I've got roughly 20GB each for both the XP and Mac OS partitions and a total of 35GB(~6GB free space) for the data partition. I'm on 10.4.6 already and I still have the problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20563-mounting-an-ntfs-partition/#findComment-135823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Does it mount via the command line? "man mount_ntfs" ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20563-mounting-an-ntfs-partition/#findComment-135825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactogo Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 Nope haven't tried that. Sorry for my ignorance but do I type that in terminal? I'll give it a try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20563-mounting-an-ntfs-partition/#findComment-135850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Nope haven't tried that. Sorry for my ignorance but do I type that in terminal? I'll give it a try. Yeah, sorry about that. I said 'man mount_ntfs' so you could see the info page that explained the syntax for it. But you will have to type that in the terminal, though, yep. The syntax would be something like mount_ntfs /dev/DISKandpart# /mount_dir. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20563-mounting-an-ntfs-partition/#findComment-135868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactogo Posted June 29, 2006 Author Share Posted June 29, 2006 Gave it a try though i couldn't understand half of what was in the manual but i keep getting no such file or directory exists Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20563-mounting-an-ntfs-partition/#findComment-136927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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