Date: 2008-11-02 11:52:02 Created: null
Martin asked me today, or possibly yesterday, about accessing NTFS volumes from OS X. When I confirmed that OS X can read from but not write to NTFS he thought it was silly and that they ought to support it to make things simple for switchers and the like.
I knew about MacFUSE already, and mentioned it to him. Basically it's the Mac version of a system to make it easy to add, develop and use all sorts of weird and wonderful file system drivers. I seemed to recall hearing about an NTFS driver for FUSE, but I had no idea how good it was or how difficult MacFUSE in general might be to use.
Well, I found out just now and am ready to report:
I had to download two small installers, one for MacFUSE and one for the NTFS driver.
Then I had to run those installers, entering my administrator password once for each.
Finally, I had to unmount and then remount my NTFS volume to make it be accessed using the new driver.
And that was it! MacFUSE recommended a reboot after installing, but it seems to really have been just a recommendation.
Links provided to the right, as usual.