Hello,

Thanks to the makers of NTFS-3G. Although I havent gotten it fully working it is a huge help being able to see data on my external NTFS drive that OSX cant mount!

Ive only run into 3 issues that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere yet, and haven't been able to solve on my own.

The first is the inability to complete a 'write' of a file to the partition. Upon completion of the file transferring to the drive I receive this message:

I'm the sole user of this laptop and am on an Administrator account and have attempted even dragging a file off the drive and back on only to receive the same message.

The second is that the I/O performance seems lower then people are saying it should be. It takes just over 3 minutes for a 170MB file to copy to or from the drive.

The third is probably a known issue but the driver seems to directly conflict with Bootcamp's ability to recognize the partition as bootable if the partition is using NTFS-3G. The only fix Ive found is unmounting the said drive, deleting the ntfs-3g folder from /system/file systems/ and remounting the partition.

Can anyone suggest a work around or fix for any of the above?

try the latest release:

macfuse 0.4.0 and and ntfs-3g 1.710.
I use the the ntfs-3g binary from http://www.daniel-johnson.org/

I wrote a AppleScript for unmounting the readonly ntfs partition and mounting the partition with ntfs-3g:

do shell script "diskutil unmount /Volumes/WINDOWS && mkdir /Volumes/WINDOWS && /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes/WINDOWS -ovolname=WINDOWS"

(assumed that the windows partition is mounted on /Volumes/WINDOWS and the Device Node is /dev/disk0s3)
save as program (start dialogue disabled!) and linking it into system configuration > user > Startup item

Where are the mount points definied in OSX?
Is there a smarter way to do this?

Hi,

I had the same problem and did all the suggested solutions but none work :-(

In my desperation, I tried to experiment in changing the command. When you mount the disk from terminal, the suggested command use "sudo" at the beginning. I removed the sudo and the problem no longer exists.

I can now write to the disk!

Hope it will work for everyone else!

Aki

I am running a powerbook g4 os 10.4.10

I am admittedly a newbie when it comes to Terminal/Linux and using command lines to get tasks done.

I decided to take a stab at it anyway.

Right now I have gotten as far as being able to mount an ntfs disk.
It comes up as a network location rather than an external drive.

It is listed as read/write. When I grabbed a handful of folders that I wanted to write to it, a couple of the folders made it over, but not their contents.
I got an error message at the end of copying the first file that reads: "the operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of teh items."

I tried the other fixes to no avail. In Terminal when I try to mount the disk without the prefix of sudo, I get a message that reads "operation not permitted"

Any suggestions here?

Thanks in advance

And one more unhappy result:


Disk utility no longer is capable of mounting the read only ntfs partition. Is that a permanent side effect?

On the plus side though, Video DVD disks are still mounting up without issue