Mac opens native NTFS read and write

Reprint http://www.tianwaihome.com/2014/07/mac-osx-ntfs.html

Many students are confused about how to write NTFS-formatted disks under a Mac, because by default, inserting an NTFS-formatted disk into a Mac is only readable and cannot be written. Use it must be very depressed, a lot of students so the mobile hard disk is divided into two partitions, an NTFS, a HFS. In fact, under the Mac is completely able to write NTFS disk

A very simple approach is to use a third-party tool, Paragon NTFS for MAC. The use of this tool, although it is simple, but a lot of trouble, one is that the tool is to charge, of course, there are cracked version, but the cracked version of what has not been implanted, then no one knows, the second is that the tool itself is not stable, easy to lose data do not say, each OSX update, Must wait for the software update to use, in short, use up not to worry ah.

In fact, we do not need to be confused, OSX actually natively support NTFS, the earliest time in OSX 10.5, can be directly written to NTFS disk, and later due to the limitations of Microsoft, this feature is blocked, we can manually open this option through the command line.

The first step, of course, is to plug in the disk.

You can view the volume Name of the disk from the Finder or by using the following command:

diskutil List/dev/Disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER0: Guid_partition_scheme *128.0GB Disk01: EFI EFI209.7MB disk0s12: Apple_corestorage127.7GB disk0s23: Apple_boot Boot OS X134.2MB disk0s3/dev/Disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER0: Guid_partition_scheme *500.1GB Disk11: EFI EFI209.7MB disk1s12: Apple_corestorage499.2GB disk1s23: Apple_boot Boot OS X650.0MB disk1s3/dev/Disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER0: APPLE_HFS Macintosh HD *621.4GB Disk2/dev/Disk3 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER0: Fdisk_partition_scheme *1.0TB Disk31: Windows_ntfs FreeAgent GoFlex Drive1.0TB disk3s1

As you can see, my Volume Name is freeagent GoFlex drive.

Update/etc/fstab file shortly thereafter

sudo vim/etc/fstab

Write the following in

label=freeagent\040goflex\040drive None NTFS Rw,auto,nobrowse

Here, in turn, the \040 means replacing the SPACEBAR, because my volume name has a space, so I have to escape this space.

The following NTFS RW indicates that the partition is mounted as a writable NTFS format, and finally Nobrowse is very important, because this represents the fact that this partition is not displayed in the Finder, which is very important and will not succeed if you do not open the mount.

After editing the disk again, you can identify, but this time there is a biggest problem, because this partition in the Finder does not show, then how we find it, we can not always use the command line.

The solution is actually very simple, because this partition is hanging/volumes under, we put this directory on the desktop to do a shortcut on the line.

sudo Ln -s/volumes ~/desktop/volumes

Mac opens native NTFS read and write