How does Mac read and write NTFS format?

How does Mac read and write NTFS format? We all know that NTFS-formatted Windows hard disk in the Mac OS X system can only read can not write, this problem has plagued many new and old Mac users, the general solution is to install the NTFS plug-in to allow OS X to support NTFS-formatted hard disk write Operation. In fact, after the release of OS X 10.9, OS X itself has the features of compatible and support NTFS files, but it is hidden by Apple, and today's small series will bring you to the Mac without installing third-party NTFS read-write tools to read and write NTFS-formatted hard disk drive tutorial.

Warm tip: This tutorial requires advanced users to enter the terminal command line to do the operation, the new user should be cautious.

The following are the steps:

1. Open application-Utilities-terminal run the following command. To see the UUID of your hard drive.

Diskutil Info/volumes/macx | grep UUID

Special note: Replace Macx with the name of your hard drive

As shown in the figure, the HDD uuid is displayed and has a partition UUID. What we need to use is the UUID identification number of the hard drive.

2. Then run the following command:

echo "uuid=ec9ab3f7-9af6-f2ec-c4ec-f22419f32464 none NTFS Rw,auto,nobrowse" | sudo tee-a/etc/fstab

Replace the character following the command line uuid= with the hard drive uuid that you obtained from the previous operation, and enter the password for the account (if the password is blank, create the password first). Input password not shown but actually entered)

3. Then, when you reconnect the USB device, the White box icon for the USB partition is no longer displayed on the desktop. You need to press COMMAND-SHIFT-G to go to the/volumes file catalogue.

At this point your NTFS hard drive is ready to read and write.

Explanation, OS X is only recognized by default NTFS and if it is displayed on the desktop can not be activated RW is read and write function, so we added in the system file/etc/fstab judgment, so that the hard disk connection when the time to determine the NTFS read-write mode, but does not appear on the desktop.