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dcv
01-17-2007, 10:55 AM
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/07/01/17/0257207.shtml

Amit Singh (if you know who he is, you know he knows OS X like no other) has ported Linux's FUSE module to OS X. This means that OS X has Linux's ntfs-3g driver - which means full read/write support of NTFS partitions.

Any OSCR Boot Camp-ers want to give it a shot?
picch
01-17-2007, 11:17 AM
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/07/01/17/0257207.shtml

Amit Singh (if you know who he is, you know he knows OS X like no other) has ported Linux's FUSE module to OS X. This means that OS X has Linux's ntfs-3g driver - which means full read/write support of NTFS partitions.

Any OSCR Boot Camp-ers want to give it a shot?

I'll give mike a scream and tell him to throw it on his laptop
bgwinkel
01-17-2007, 04:16 PM
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

NTFS on OS X!

That's right, the same backing that ROCKS and DESTROYS your NTFS partitions in Linux has been moved to Sunday Nights on OS X.

Watch it live on Pay-Per-View!
dcv
01-17-2007, 11:24 PM
That's right, the same backing that ROCKS and DESTROYS your NTFS partitions in Linux has been moved to Sunday Nights on OS X.

Are you implying that Linux's NTFS driver destroys NTFS partitions? If so, then I beg you to reconsider your statement - since the release of the ntfs-3g driver last year, Linux users have had perfect NTFS read/write ability. A Fedora Core user myself, I can personally attest to the reliability, consistency, and power of the ntfs-3g driver to read from/write to my Windows XP partition.
nlopez
01-18-2007, 10:46 AM
ntfs-3g is a completely different driver than the old in-kernel ntfs driver, which did have write problems.
dcv
01-18-2007, 01:55 PM
ntfs-3g is a completely different driver than the old in-kernel ntfs driver, which did have write problems.

Myep - I learned that about the old ntfs driver the hard way when I started on Linux a while back and destroyed an XP install (or two).

FUSE/ntfs-3g is a pretty big boon nowadays (thank god).
amccabe
01-20-2007, 10:44 AM
I finally got this to work yesterday by following this lifehacker guide:

http://lifehacker.com/software/mac/how-to-mount-any-filesystem-in-mac-os-x-with-macfuse-229345.php

I was using the precompiled FUSE binary, but I couldn't find a compiled ntfs-3g binary. I followed several guides, but the ./configure for ntfs-3g kept failing and it wouldn't make or install. Since it was so new, I was also having trouble finding good info about it. But the Lifehacker guide was simple and worked first-time.

The best thing about it is that it now automounts with ntfs-3g everytime I restart the computer or shutdown Parallels. I was afraid that I would have to manually unmount and mount with 3g. And it has worked flawlessly so far.