2011
12.17
12.17
A coworker of mine was asking how to get NTFS working for OSX (WTF Apple no native NTFS read/write, really? REALLY?!?). So, I shot him this link. I figured it would be a bit easier to summarize the post below:
$ brew install fuse4x
$ brew install ntfs-3g
$ sudo brew link ntfs-3g
$ sudo cp -rfX /usr/local/Cellar/fuse4x-kext/0.8.13/Library/ \ Extensions/fuse4x.kext /System/Library/Extensions
$ sudo chmod +s /System/Library/Extensions/fuse4x.kext/Support/load_fuse4x
$ sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig
$ sudo touch /sbin/mount_ntfs
$ sudo chmod 0755 /sbin/mount_ntfs
$ sudo chown 0:0 /sbin/mount_ntfs
$ cat < < EOF | sudo tee /sbin/mount_ntfs
#!/bin/bash
VOLUME_NAME="${@:$#}"
VOLUME_NAME=${VOLUME_NAME#/Volumes/}
USER_ID=501
GROUP_ID=20
TIMEOUT=20
if [ `/usr/bin/stat -f "%u" /dev/console` -eq 0 ]; then
USERNAME=`/usr/bin/defaults read /library/preferences/com.apple.loginwindow | /usr/bin/grep autoLoginUser | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }' | /usr/bin/sed 's/;//'`
if [ "$USERNAME" = "" ]; then
until [ `stat -f "%u" /dev/console` -ne 0 ] || [ $TIMEOUT -eq 0 ]; do
sleep 1
let TIMEOUT--
done
if [ $TIMEOUT -ne 0 ]; then
USER_ID=`/usr/bin/stat -f "%u" /dev/console`
GROUP_ID=`/usr/bin/stat -f "%g" /dev/console`
fi
else
USER_ID=`/usr/bin/id -u $USERNAME`
GROUP_ID=`/usr/bin/id -g $USERNAME`
fi
else
USER_ID=`/usr/bin/stat -f "%u" /dev/console`
GROUP_ID=`/usr/bin/stat -f "%g" /dev/console`
fi
/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g \
-o volname="${VOLUME_NAME}" \
-o local \
-o noappledouble \
-o negative_vncache \
-o auto_xattr \
-o auto_cache \
-o noatime \
-o windows_names \
-o user_xattr \
-o inherit \
-o uid=$USER_ID \
-o gid=$GROUP_ID \
-o allow_other \
"$@" &> /var/log/ntfsmnt.log
exit $?;
EOF
Thanks Apples & Rubies!
*NOTE* Here is a copy of the raw file in case the formatting jacked up the ability to copy and paste. Eventually Ill look into styling my gist’s to match the layout of the blog.
