tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post3108512353131611186..comments2023-09-23T18:48:06.541+02:00Comments on NTFS-3G for Mac OS X: NTFS-3G 2009.1.1 Update 1Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-17878412647098966122011-01-06T08:37:59.361+01:002011-01-06T08:37:59.361+01:00...actually about two years old....actually about two years old.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-77082186483732084792011-01-06T08:37:20.097+01:002011-01-06T08:37:20.097+01:00Anonymous, January 6, 2011 7:56 AM:
This version ...Anonymous, January 6, 2011 7:56 AM:<br /><br />This version is about a year old by now, so please upgrade to <a href="http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/search/label/Releases" rel="nofollow">the latest version</a> and see if your problem is still there.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-34618655694652338122011-01-06T07:56:40.291+01:002011-01-06T07:56:40.291+01:00It keeps saying "/usr/local/lib/libfuse.2.dyl...It keeps saying "/usr/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib" not found.<br />And i checked everywhere. i also uninstalled and installed MacFuse.<br />It refuses to identify my WD Harddrive.<br />And it used to a month ago.Anonymoushttp://(optional)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-79740003365772277482009-02-12T13:46:00.000+01:002009-02-12T13:46:00.000+01:00Federico Calboli:I just released the latest versio...Federico Calboli:<BR/><BR/>I just released the latest version of NTFS-3G, version 2009.2.1.<BR/><BR/>The issue with uncleanly unmounted drives is much easier to deal with in the latest release, since you will now get a dialog box where you can choose to force mount a volume if it's uncleanly unmounted.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-54620776036073756952009-02-12T12:14:00.000+01:002009-02-12T12:14:00.000+01:00One more problem. I noticed that:1) 99% of the tim...One more problem. I noticed that:<BR/><BR/>1) 99% of the time a winbox will not safely remove the external hd complaining it's in use when it's not<BR/><BR/>2) most of the time using the finder in osx will cause the 'unclean removal' problem that requires a forced mount/unmount from terminal. The problem does not arise if the unmount come in the form of<BR/><BR/>sudo umount<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, the drive is sometimes disk1s1 or disk2s1, which makes writing a simple script to deal with it a pain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-89657075467126503652009-02-11T13:17:00.000+01:002009-02-11T13:17:00.000+01:00A second issue encountered was that the disk would...A second issue encountered was that the disk would not mount complaining of an unclean unmount beforehands (the disk was briefly used by a student on his Mac, and I have no reason to believe it was not unmounted properly). I solved the problem typing the following on the terminal:<BR/><BR/>sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/External<BR/>sudo /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/External -olocale=en_US.UTF-8,force,auto_xattr,defer_auth,defer_permissions,volname="External"<BR/>sudo umount /dev/disk1s1 <BR/><BR/>Unplug the cable, replug and the disk is now working again and visible on the desktop.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-53991085132674546922009-02-11T13:12:00.000+01:002009-02-11T13:12:00.000+01:00Erik,the drive is new, it had less than 1 gig of d...Erik,<BR/><BR/>the drive is new, it had less than 1 gig of data on. Unfortunately my wife did not plug in the firewire cable and that might have caused the problem the first time around, before I reformatted the diskAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-27861636576131748702009-02-10T07:43:00.000+01:002009-02-10T07:43:00.000+01:00I reformatted the NTFS volume without "fast format...I reformatted the NTFS volume without "fast formatting" option as Federico did, but it didn't help. Also tried to remove NTFS-3G and MacFUSE, and reinstall them. The result is still the same: read speed ok, write speed slow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-75488742380331449602009-02-10T04:00:00.000+01:002009-02-10T04:00:00.000+01:00Federico Calboli:Did you have anything on the driv...Federico Calboli:<BR/><BR/>Did you have anything on the drive prior to reformatting? I don't think a "slow" format should do much difference, but it might be a problem if the data on the drive is severely fragmented, which might be the case after having used it for a long time in Windows.<BR/><BR/>I can recommend that anyone with performance problems make sure that their drives are as little fragmented as possible, by defragmenting them in Windows.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-69003367895087337872009-02-10T00:55:00.000+01:002009-02-10T00:55:00.000+01:00Thank you very much indeed for doing this guys. Th...Thank you very much indeed for doing this guys. This version really solves most of the last few issues. You really are a role model for our society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-45718443386519337392009-02-09T10:09:00.000+01:002009-02-09T10:09:00.000+01:00Hi Erik, an update on the write speed on my wife's...Hi Erik, an update on the write speed on my wife's external HD. I reformatted the drive 'slowly', i.e. not ticking the 'fast formatting' box in windows (a 320 gig drive took 1 hour plus to format). The drive now works fine, the write and read times are acceptable -- write time for 1 gig in 35 second-ish. The improvement is visible for both my wife's computed (intel mac with the latest Tiger) and mine (intel mac with the latest Leopard). Aside from reformatting nothing has changed, so that might be one possible way forward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-9464640767191382802009-02-08T05:21:00.000+01:002009-02-08T05:21:00.000+01:00Dilip Ramachandran:Any ntfs-3g crash is really ser...Dilip Ramachandran:<BR/><BR/>Any ntfs-3g crash is really serious, and should be dealt with accordingly.<BR/><BR/>Could you post the crash log from these occasions as a message in the <A HREF="http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/viewforum.php?f=4" REL="nofollow">NTFS-3G Forum</A>?<BR/>The crash logs should be found under <I>/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/</I> and begin with <I>ntfs-3g</I>.<BR/><BR/>(By the way, what problems did HFSExplorer have with the drive? You can report HFSExplorer problems to the <A HREF="https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=719087" REL="nofollow">HFSExplorer forum</A>)Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-86004194243809847802009-02-08T01:31:00.000+01:002009-02-08T01:31:00.000+01:00Hi Erik-this program is great. i'm moving data fro...Hi Erik-<BR/>this program is great. i'm moving data from an osx machine to a vista x64 machine (40gigs worth) via a maxtor external drive. I've tried several formats and even hfsexplorer but the only way to get data over is via ntfs formatted drive over macfuse+ntfs3g.<BR/><BR/>Just wanted to drop some feedback.<BR/>I used the high performance version first which was very fast and took an hour or so to copy 40 gigs. But it crashed on me twice making the drive unreadable and so I had to go to a PC to reformat and try again. On the third time I was able to get all the data over. The data is text files, images and audio. The images look fine, so do the text files but all the audio is messed up. Like different songs have mixed or the same song is overlapping itself essentially different bit rates, i don't know. The same problem I found in the 2-3 video files I had.<BR/><BR/>Now I've uninstalled and implementing your latest stable release and copied over some test audio and it worked great. The only problem is that it will take around 7 hours to copy 40gigs!!<BR/><BR/>cheers!D. Ramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05683304013953560926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-36558951095186830932009-02-06T19:33:00.000+01:002009-02-06T19:33:00.000+01:00I forgot to mention: the read speed from NTFS is g...I forgot to mention: the read speed from NTFS is good (>10Mib/s), but write speed is slow.<BR/><BR/>thanks,<BR/>TonyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-46426853561650188242009-02-05T18:27:00.000+01:002009-02-05T18:27:00.000+01:00Hi Erik,sorry I didn't make it clear: it's...Hi Erik,<BR/><BR/>sorry I didn't make it clear: it's ok with me that I cannot access partition #9 from winxp, since winxp only uses MBR and can see only the first 3 partitions. This is not a problem of ntfs-3g at all. I posted the partition layout just in case it may be helpful to find out the reason of slow performance.<BR/><BR/>I use that partition mainly for sharing data between linux & osx. So far so good, except that it's a bit slow on osx. <BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>TonyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-17380122612844540242009-02-05T16:12:00.000+01:002009-02-05T16:12:00.000+01:00Tony:Sorry, I didn't notice your signature earlier...Tony:<BR/><BR/>Sorry, I didn't notice your signature earlier. It would be much clearer if you didn't post as "Anonymous".Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-91098042435080357012009-02-05T16:09:00.000+01:002009-02-05T16:09:00.000+01:00Tony:Is that even a question? :)Can you access par...Tony:<BR/><BR/>Is that even a question? :)<BR/><BR/>Can you access partitions 6, 7 and 8 but not number 9? ...and are you saying NTFS-3G has something to do with that?<BR/><BR/>I must say your partition layout seems really strange. Why two EFI partitions? Why 5 Microsoft partitions?<BR/>I'm not sure how your system is configured, but the legacy MBR table can only hold 4 partition entries. A normal 32-bit Windows version won't be able to access any of the partitions 5-9.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-24589834605444856012009-02-05T15:10:00.000+01:002009-02-05T15:10:00.000+01:00Hi Erik, my system config is following:Hardware: M...Hi Erik, my system config is following:<BR/><BR/>Hardware: MacBookPro5,1 15", model 2.53GHz<BR/>MacOSX version: 10.5.5<BR/>MacFUSE: 2.0.3<BR/>NTFS-3G: 2009.1.1 Update 1, stable<BR/>Partition table:<BR/> #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER<BR/> 0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk0<BR/> 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1<BR/> 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 39.9 Gi disk0s2<BR/> 3: Microsoft Basic Data 196.1 Mi disk0s3<BR/> 4: EFI 20.0 Gi disk0s4<BR/> 5: Linux Swap 4.0 Gi disk0s5<BR/> 6: Microsoft Basic Data 8.0 Gi disk0s6<BR/> 7: Microsoft Basic Data 8.0 Gi disk0s7<BR/> 8: Microsoft Basic Data 40.0 Gi disk0s8<BR/> 9: Microsoft Basic Data share 177.8 Gi disk0s9<BR/><BR/>I have triple boot on MBP, and use partition #9 as the share partition between osx & linux. I cannot access that partition from WinXP, though (what an irony).<BR/><BR/>thanks,<BR/>TonyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-81365082429857230782009-02-05T09:19:00.000+01:002009-02-05T09:19:00.000+01:00Hi, the performance issues affect firewire as well...Hi, the performance issues affect firewire as well, that's what my wife uses to connect to the external HD.<BR/><BR/>FedeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-52733789461357238892009-02-05T04:43:00.000+01:002009-02-05T04:43:00.000+01:00Federico Calboli:There seems to be a serious perfo...Federico Calboli:<BR/><BR/>There seems to be a serious performance problem with USB drives in the latest builds.<BR/><BR/>I'm investigating what might be causing this...Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-24361071043982866032009-02-04T23:54:00.000+01:002009-02-04T23:54:00.000+01:00Hi,I downloaded the latest ubiblio ntfs-3g for my ...Hi,<BR/><BR/>I downloaded the latest ubiblio ntfs-3g for my wife's mac but the write time to her external HD went up by many orders of magnitude compared to when the HD was formatted in FAT32 (from 5 minutes coping a few gigs to many hours). Any idea of what's going on?<BR/><BR/>FedeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-19936220647078779562009-02-03T18:46:00.000+01:002009-02-03T18:46:00.000+01:00Anonymous, February 3, 2009 3:05 PM:That sounds un...Anonymous, February 3, 2009 3:05 PM:<BR/><BR/>That sounds unreasonably slow... I usually get at least 10 times that speed.<BR/>What are your system specs, OS version and which build are you using (ublio or stable)?Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-61554153741075749702009-02-03T15:05:00.000+01:002009-02-03T15:05:00.000+01:00Hi, I would like to say big thanks for ntfs-3g for...Hi, I would like to say big thanks for ntfs-3g for macosx. I have downloaded and installed it as instructed on this blog and everything works out-of-the-box. Cool!<BR/><BR/>I still have a small issue that some have also experienced, that the performance on a fixed ATA/SATA disk is slow (about 1-2MiB/s). Not a big deal, I hope this will be improved in next version of ntfs-3g or MacFUSE. Thanks, Tony.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-87698350373393703112009-02-02T15:30:00.000+01:002009-02-02T15:30:00.000+01:00Ah, right...Cheers, Erik -- thinking about it, I d...Ah, right...<BR/><BR/>Cheers, Erik -- thinking about it, I <I>did</I> have a crash...I hard to press the power switch coz XP wouldn't shut down.Tim Danaherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03089259720924110890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156578562014006371.post-80710647920631726292009-02-02T11:46:00.000+01:002009-02-02T11:46:00.000+01:00Tim Danaher:Mostly when people get this message it...Tim Danaher:<BR/><BR/>Mostly when people get this message it's because they have detached a removable drive from a Windows system without prior safe removal.<BR/>But you're right, the same situation occurs after a Windows crash.<BR/><BR/>The safe removal does occur automatically when you shut down the Windows installation normally.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326970669258666618noreply@blogger.com