Fastest way to get your NTFS-drive writeable on OS X
2014-12-01Create the file /etc/fstab
(it doesn’t exists by default) and add the line
LABEL=DRIVENAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse
where DRIVENAME
is the name of your NTFS drive. Unmount and mount the drive by issuing the following commands:
diskutil eject DRIVENAME
diskutil mount DRIVENAME
Note: Do not use the command umount
or diskutil unmount
instead of eject
– it forces the unmount and stops any file transfers currently running to and
from the disk (which means you are likely to lose data).
You can now browse the drive by issuing the command open /Volumes/DRIVENAME
.
Unfortunately the nobrowse
flag in fstab
means that the drive will not appear on the Desktop
nor in the Finder sidebar. Sadly, if you omit it – the drive will appear, but will
be read-only.
Tested on OS X 10.7.5.
Reference: https://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-how-to-write-to-ntfs-drives-in-os-x-mavericks–cms-21434