[quanfer]

It worked the first time I installed Macfuse/Ntfs-3g as instructed on shadowofged's site, but then suddenly I was unable to write on my NTFS drive.

I figured I'll just re-install it, but the website is down. Could anyone link me to a mirror or something? I can't seem to find a working link ANYWHERE.

[Sijmen]

Check this out: macosxhints.com - 10.4: Use MacFuse to read and write to NTFS volumes

[brokenjago]

Also, check out the GUI to MacFUSE, MacFusion.

[Brass]

hmmm... just downloaded and installed MacFUSE from Google in order to use sshfs. Works great. I've also downloaded and installed ntfs-3g, but don't have any NTFS volumes handy with which to test it. I've noticed that there appears to be a bit of a rigmarole involved in handling NTFS drives this way with the Finder mounting them read-only automatically, requiring manual unmounting, and then remounting using ntfs-3g.

I thought I'd try to simplify this but have no way to test it (not having an NTFS volume anywhere). I've written the following PERL script which should automatically unmount all NTFS volumes and re-mount them all using ntfs-3g. If it works, I could use Platypus to wrap it up into a double-clickable cocoa application, but I want to find out if it works first.

For me to check I'm doing this correctly, could somebody with a FINDER-MOUNTED (ie, NOT ntfs-3g-mounted) NTFS volume, please email me the output of entering 'diskutil list' in the Terminal?

Thanks!

code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

open VOLS, "/usr/sbin/diskutil list|" or die "Failed to open volume list";

while ($vol = <VOLS>)
{
if ( $vol =~ /^\s+[0-9]+:/ )
{
$name = $vol;
$name =~ s/^\s+[0-9]+:\s+\S+ (.+)\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+\s*$/$1/;
$vol =~ s/\s+/ /g;
($blank,$num,$type,@remainder) = split / /, $vol;
$id = pop @remainder;

if ( $type =~ /NTFS/ )
{
print "TYPE: $type. NAME: $name. ID: $id.\n";
system("/usr/sbin/diskutil", "unmount", $id);
mkdir "/Volumes/$name";
system("/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g", "/dev/$id", "/Volumes/$name", "-o", "ping_diskarb,volname=\"$name\"");
}
}
}

close VOLS;