Jinx Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 So Tiger technically supports mounting NTFS drives with mount_ntfs, unfortunately no mac users seem to take advantage of this (most likely they don't have a dual boot with windows on their mac drives ) so it's really hard to find help on getting the drive automounted My problem is that on bootup, tiger gives me errors about initializing my other drives I found this one google result with a mac user having the same problem as me, but i couldnt find replies ( http://www.macosx.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-91163.html ) 1. The single volume on the 160 GB drive does not automatically mounton my desktop when I plug in the drive. Disk Utility sees the volume, although it only identifies it by its device name (e.g. "disk3s1"), and refuses to mount it. I can get around this problem with "mount -r -t ntfs /dev/disk3s1 /Volumes/NTFS_Volume" to manually mount it on /Volumes/NTFS_Volume. (Restarting the Finder seems necessary to get it to pick up on the new volume.) But it bothers me that friends seem able to automatically mount their NTFS volumes without any problems. That's a good summary of what happens for me. I can easily manually mount the drives, but osx doesn't seem to detect it. I have two disks plugged in besides the disk for tiger, osx doesnt seem to like their partitions though, even though it should technically be able to read them (and it technically does) Anyone know how to configure mac to automount these drives? I don't mind a shell script to mount_ntfs on boot, but I'm guessing Finder won't show them unless it was 'restarted' ps. another way to show the mounted drives after manually doing a mount_ntfs is to browse to /Volumes in Finder, the drives will pop up as they should. * EDIT * One of the partitions on one of the other drives is actually an ext2 for my Fedora Core 3-- it also doesnt get mounted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy4life Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I've got a partitioned hard drive... running xp and osx natively, my drive gets mounted automatically ALTHOUGH!! when open it up... i can't see any of my folders etc.... on the other hand.. if i access it through volumes/untitled in the terminal i can see everything... it's really odd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
s4e Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 It depend the partition size. I test 6 NTFS partitions: #1: 2G mount automatically #2: 10G mount automatically #3: 37G doesn't mount #4: 54G doesn't mount #5: 57G doesn't mount #6: 110G doesn't mount I've got a partitioned hard drive... running xp and osx natively, my drive gets mounted automatically ALTHOUGH!! when open it up... i can't see any of my folders etc.... on the other hand.. if i access it through volumes/untitled in the terminal i can see everything... it's really odd. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy4life Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 my 49 gig is the one that mounts automatically.... except im just wondering.... can u view your files in finder? because i cant! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
s4e Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 my 49 gig is the one that mounts automatically.... except im just wondering.... can u view your files in finder? because i cant! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes. both auto and manual mount. and all my partitions have 4K cluster size. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snafu Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 my 49 gig is the one that mounts automatically.... except im just wondering.... can u view your files in finder? because i cant! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have a 54.59 gig ntfs partition that automounts without any problem... its from a 120gig drive cut in half with windows/linux on it... no problems there and yes I can see all folders/ files. Nothing was needed to get the hdd to automount, just sits on my desktop in all its glory... not that I do much with it these days ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy4life Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Yes. both auto and manual mount. and all my partitions have 4K cluster size. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> any idea how i can get my files to view in finder?... i open the drive.. but its like its empty, although it reads the free space correctly.... if i access the drive from the terminal... i can see all my files there... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elpincho Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 any idea how i can get my files to view in finder?... i open the drive.. but its like its empty, although it reads the free space correctly.... if i access the drive from the terminal... i can see all my files there... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You can use PartitionMagic, to turn the format ntfs to fat32, and this will solve its problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I have a similar problem. I have a HD with 3 NTFS partitions, the first (8GB) and second (27GB) mount automatically. However the third (39.5GB) doesn't mount (greyed out disk1s6 in DiskUtil). I can force it to mount with mount_ntfs however it doesn't show up until I enter its path in Go>Go to folder, and some folders in the drive also don't show up until their path is manually entered. I'm guessing its something to do with the size of the drive but I dunno. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinx Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 Ahhhhhhh so its disk size I have a 35gig partition and a 120gig partition weird though, the linux partition is 5gigs and it doesnt automount Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kryten Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 OSX doesn't know or see any linux partition. mac-mini-van-xxxxx:~ xxxxx$ mount mount mount_cd9660 mount_fdesc mount_msdos mount_smbfs mount_volfs mount_afp mount_cddafs mount_ftp mount_nfs mount_synthfs mount_webdav mount_autofs mount_devfs mount_hfs mount_ntfs mount_udf As you can see no mount_ext2, mount_ext3, mount_reiser or mount_xfs etc.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidred Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Perhaps if you edited the /etc/rc file and added a line in below the section where it mounts its own volumes? I do this for an NFS share and it works. Is there an equivalent /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab for OSX? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-5749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elParkeur Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I was having the same problem with the unmountable NTFS volumes. After searching the Board for some time, I discovered a method for unmounting unwanted volumes during startup using /etc/fstab. I thought of using this method to mount the NTFS volumes. But the guide from this board used the drive labels to identify and (un)mount them. As we know, the labels of the unmountbale drives are not recognized. Having only basic knowledge of unix systems I searched for the documentation of fstab. There I found the solution for automounting such an NTFS volume. Here is my solution: 1. check the drive's name in disk util (should be something like disk*s*) 2. create the mount point (replace YourDesiredName with the name you want the drive to appear on the desktop) mkdir /Volumes/YourDesiredName 3. edit fstab sudo nano /etc/fstab 4. add the following to fstab (replace the * with the numbers you looked up in disk util) /dev/disk*s* /Volumes/YourDesiredName ntfs ro 5. save the file and reboot the machine Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/857-automounting-ntfs-drives/#findComment-298083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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