giga Veteran Posted September 14, 2009 Veteran Share Posted September 14, 2009 This was enabled by default in previous developer builds, but was disabled in the GM for some reason. (could be bugs or stability issues) This is not supported by Apple and it is your own responsibility if something goes awry. So if you're fine with taking some risks, proceed. Otherwise, use solutions such as Paragon NTFS or NTFS-3G--which are supported by their respective developers. 1. Open TextEdit. Format -> Make Plain Text. 2. Paste the following in the file. Replace XXX with your partition name.: LABEL=XXX none ntfs rw 3. If you have more than one NTFS partition, just paste a new line with the different partition name. 4. File -> Save As to your Desktop. Save the file name as: fstab. Uncheck "If no extension is provided, use .txt" 5. Navigate to Finder. Go -> Go to Folder. Enter /etc in the input prompt. 6. Drag/drop the fstab file from your Desktop into the /etc folder. You'll need to authenticate it. If you have a file in there already named fstab.hd, just leave it in there. 7. Restart. Note: If the 'label' method doesn't work as shown Step 2, replace it with this: UUID=XXX none ntfs rw. You can find the UUID of your partition in Disk Utility. Right click the partition on the left in Disk Utility and click Information. It'll be called the Universal Unique Identifier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Thanks for the tip (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Sweet, it worked Thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyCypherz Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 thx. will try it later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blachole Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Does this work when your kernal is forced into 64-bit mode? I've kept myself in 32-bit mode just to run NTFS-3G since it does not working 64-bit mode.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaulMR Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 hi Works fine in 64bit mode, Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genius Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 going to check this out, thanks for the tip :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Whoa, nice! :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 You know the best thing about this besides working in 64bit is it also still displays Windows in the startup disk pref panel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 It stopped working today? I remade the fstab file this time using the UUID and that didn't fix it ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 It stopped working today?I remade the fstab file this time using the UUID and that didn't fix it ???????? Did you manage to get it working again? I tried it last night and it works for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyX Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 @giga : the part of the wallpaper we're seeing looks nice. Care to share it? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Antonius Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Wild guess, but could it be the default Earth one installed with SL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaulMR Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 It stopped working today?I remade the fstab file this time using the UUID and that didn't fix it ???????? my fstab with incomplete UUID UUID=5BF837B6-3122-4F5A-BFFD-**** none ntfs rw UUID=2E32AECE-96C3-4700-85AA-**** none ntfs rw Works fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted September 26, 2009 Author Veteran Share Posted September 26, 2009 @giga : the part of the wallpaper we're seeing looks nice. Care to share it? :p http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=193368 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 I discovered that for some reason when using the fstab mod, the windows partition sometimes needs to do a checkdisk at boot time, even though I did not use any program to schedule one in windows. when the partition is set to run the checkdisk, it won't have write permissions under OS X even with a proper fstab using either LABEL or UUID. Also sometimes even thought it has read permission nothing will show up in finder, which with Fstab removed works fine If booted to Windows Partition and the Checkdisk is allowed to run and complete the next time it is accessed under OS X it will again have write permission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 (edited) Not sure if it was just my iMac, but on a fresh install of Snow Leopard the Finder would randomly crash or quit and refuse to relaunch. After removing the mod it stopped. Edited October 2, 2009 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted October 2, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 2, 2009 I discovered that for some reason when using the fstab mod, the windows partition sometimes needs to do a checkdisk at boot time, even though I did not use any program to schedule one in windows.when the partition is set to run the checkdisk, it won't have write permissions under OS X even with a proper fstab using either LABEL or UUID. Also sometimes even thought it has read permission nothing will show up in finder, which with Fstab removed works fine If booted to Windows Partition and the Checkdisk is allowed to run and complete the next time it is accessed under OS X it will again have write permission. If there's a "fault"* then the driver will mount it in read only mode to stop possible corruption, the driver's aren't perfect yet so it's the best fail-safe to prevent issues. * When I say fault, it might be something as simple as (and most likely will be) an unclean dismount, it doesn't necessarily mean there's actually anything wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 If there's a "fault"* then the driver will mount it in read only mode to stop possible corruption, the driver's aren't perfect yet so it's the best fail-safe to prevent issues.* When I say fault, it might be something as simple as (and most likely will be) an unclean dismount, it doesn't necessarily mean there's actually anything wrong. Probably why it's not on by default :p But works great here :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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