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So I installed OSX and it works.... but I want NTFS write support in OSX or ext3. Ext3 support for osx does not exist but NTFS does. I tryed MACFUSE and ntfs3g. It installed and then I tryed to mount disk (I unmounted read only partition in disk utility) and the read thing worked but then I tryed to write and finder just crashed and I coudnt start it again. So I pushed reset and finder worked again, ntfs partition was mounted read only.... So I wanted to try ntfs3g again but it can't mount that partition. I unmounted read only partition and did all things as before but I just get "unable to acces /dev/disk1s1/ - not a directory"

 

So can anybody help?

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I just wish there was a better solution than NTFS3G, as it is it doesn't work all that great. I sometimes get errors saying I can't write to the drive sometimes I don't. (When I get the error it happens AFTER it completes the copy, i.e. the progress bar goes full then at the end says I Can't write.) And of course there's the write performance issue. Ugh.

 

Is there any hope on the horizon for better NTFS support in the future? :(

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Have you tried mounting that partition manually using '-o rw' option?

 

Mac:~ user$ sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/NTFSDisk

 

No I didn't but I will!

 

Well I can't use osx before I get to work one of this filesystems: NTFS, ext3 or reiserFS. I need only one to start using osx as primary system. I hope for ext3 but I think that I will have more luck with NTFS.

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oh, i ran into that 4GB problem when downloading ilife so i just had it download to my ntfs partition and installed it from there onto my OSx86 disk. then i just used winrar to archive it into two seperate 3GB files for safe keeping.

 

well, if you cant get an ntfs partition to work right, you could always use a fat 32 and use an archive manger, but then again i do not know what kind of files you have and how regularly you use them

 

best of luck

 

keep on macKIN'

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MacDrive7 works superbly on the PC end. Perfect opportunity for some enterprising programmer to come up with a PCDrive program. I would have thought that with the intro of the Intel/Macs we'd have this by now.

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