NTFS read-Write master advanced-Windows format HDD mac storage file

Common sense:
Hard disk Format:
Fat32-windows hard disk partition format, a bit of versatility, disadvantage does not support a single file larger than 4G.
Exfat-windows hard disk partition format, low compatibility. Stability is inferior to FAT32.
Ntfs-windows hard disk partition format, using extensive, disadvantage, in OS X cannot be directly written to the file. can only be accessed.

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NTFS-formatted Windows hard disk has been plagued by new and old Mac users, the solution is to install the NTFS plug-in to allow OS X to support the write operation of NTFS Windows files.

But in OS X 10.9, in fact, OS X itself has the compatibility and support NTFS file features, but for some reason, Apple is deeply hidden. It was not long before a dark night, an IT dead house, was discovered by the activation of a bowl of bowls of noodles. Share with you. together to improve.

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This tutorial requires advanced users to enter the terminal command line to operate. Please take care of the new user.

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Open application-Utilities-terminal run the following command.

1. Diskutil Info/volumes/macx | grep UUID

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Replace your hard drive's name with the UUID of the Macx live hard drive.

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, the brother's hard drive UUID shows up. And there is a partition UUID. What we need to use is the UUID identification number of the hard drive.

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

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and enter the password for your account (for example, if the password is blank, create a password first. Input password not shown but actually entered)

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.

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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.

Related documents:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/.../kext/ntfs_vfsops.c

/*
* We only allow read/write mounts if the "nobrowse" option is also
* Given. Discourage end users from mounting Read/write,
* But still allows we utilities (such as an OS install)
* Changes to an NTFS volume. Without the "nobrowse" option, we force
* A read-only mount. Note that we also check for non-update mounts
* here. In the case of an update mount, Ntfs_remount () would do the
* Appropriate checking for changing the writability of the mount.
*/
if (Vfs_flags (MP) & mnt_dontbrowse) = = 0 &&!vfs_isupdate (MP))
Vfs_setflags (MP, mnt_rdonly);

If you want to recover you only need to go to/etc/fstab to delete the written text.
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For easy access, you can create an alias for your hard drive. On your desktop or in the Finder menu bar. Of course, I know macx this master gathered, if you can use AppleScript even Swift to write a program monitoring and automatically create read and write mode that is more convenient.

NTFS read-write master advanced-Windows format hard disk mac storage file