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Title: MAC reading NTFS?
Post by: Beaker on January 23, 2007, 16:10:38 PM

Just checking for confirmation, does a MAC read NTFS drives in a USB Caddy? Im fairly sure it does, but can a MAC user please correct me if im wrong?

Title: MAC reading NTFS?
Post by: maximusotter on January 23, 2007, 16:16:55 PM

Im 95% sure its read only with writing possible at your peril. Just like every other *nix.

Title: Re:MAC reading NTFS?
Post by: mrt on January 23, 2007, 17:04:24 PM

From what I understand, max is correct; you can only read NTFS. For better compatibility you could format to FAT32 to allow write access, although if you have larger files than 4GB you will have a problem!?!

Title: Re:MAC reading NTFS?
Post by: Shakey on January 23, 2007, 17:08:46 PM

Actually reading and writing NTFS in linux is a lot better than it used to be.

Using ubuntu with the ntfs-3g package it appears to work quite well (although things like protected an ntfs-compressed files are still a problem).

Title: Re:MAC reading NTFS?
Post by: skidzilla on January 23, 2007, 17:26:13 PM

Quote from: ShakeyActually reading and writing NTFS in linux is a lot better than it used to be.

Using ubuntu with the ntfs-3g package it appears to work quite well (although things like protected an ntfs-compressed files are still a problem).

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

This has now been ported to Mac OSX too (MacFuse).
Ive been using it with various Linux distros without any issues, although I havent tried writing to compressed/encrypted files & folders.

Edit: Instructions for compiling ntfs-3g on Macs.

Title: Re:MAC reading NTFS?
Post by: Beaker on January 23, 2007, 17:48:58 PM

Quote from: mrtFrom what I understand, max is correct; you can only read NTFS. For better compatibility you could format to FAT32 to allow write access, although if you have larger files than 4GB you will have a problem!?!

I suggested that, but we need to move a 130Gb+ file from one location to another.

Title: MAC reading NTFS?
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on January 23, 2007, 18:17:23 PM

CHRIST! 130gb file?! wtf... a database I presume?

Title: Re:MAC reading NTFS?
Post by: skidzilla on January 23, 2007, 18:32:31 PM

Quote from: skidzilla
Quote from: ShakeyActually reading and writing NTFS in linux is a lot better than it used to be.

Using ubuntu with the ntfs-3g package it appears to work quite well (although things like protected an ntfs-compressed files are still a problem).
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

This has now been ported to Mac OSX too (MacFuse). (Alpha.)
Ive been using it with various Linux distros without any issues, although I havent tried writing to compressed/encrypted files & folders.

Edit: Instructions for compiling ntfs-3g on Macs.

http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/ntfs-3g/NTFS-3G%2020070116-r4.dmg

Title: MAC reading NTFS?
Post by: Beaker on January 23, 2007, 22:03:53 PM

Quote from: M3ta7h3adCHRIST! 130gb file?! wtf... a database I presume?

Compressed Database I think, something was said about it possibly being bigger. :shock:

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