Read and Write NTFS Volumes On The Mac
Ever since Apple released Boot Camp, Mac users who partitioned more then 32GB to their Windows partition have been unable to write to the little Windows drive sitting on their Mac desktop.
Those days are over thanks to a open source Google (gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!) project called MacFuse. MacFUSE is a port of Linux’s FUSE kernel-level interface to just for Mac OS X. Even though it is not yet an easy install, if you need to write to your Windows partition from your Mac this will be a HUGE help.
You will first need to download and install MacFUSE via the compiled DMG.
Then you will need to download and install the precompiled NTFS-3g package.
Once that is done open Disk Utility and find the device identifier of the NTFS volume, and unmount it (Usually called disk0s2 or something along those lines). Once that is down open Terminal and type:
mkdir /Volumes/DEVICEID Except type in your device ID that you found earlier.
Then type ntfs-3g /dev/disk0s2 /Volumes/DEVICEID -o
ping_diskarb,volname=”DEVICEID”
Then the finder should mount your NTFS volume. This mount procedure must be repeated every time you want to mount an NTFS volume, and I suggest you might want to create an automator script to ease the process. Use with caution.
