I'll probably terminate it as soon as an official hazzle-free package appears. (If there is one out there that I don't know about, please contact me so I can check it out)
In this post, I'd like to talk about my current setup:
To install NTFS-3G I use the installers and the scripts from the now defunct project at shadowofged's blog . As I only have the file "NTFS-3G 1.417 (Full).dmg" in my possession (I'm not sure about what rights I have to distribute it, so I won't), I use it to install the package. This sets up a fully working NTFS-3G environment with automatic mounting of NTFS file systems with the 3G driver, though with an older version.
I then download the precompiled NTFS-3G package from http://www.daniel-johnson.org/ and extract the binaries and copy them over the existing ones:
mkntfs -> /usr/local/bin/mkntfs
ntfs-3g -> /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g
ntfscat -> /usr/local/bin/ntfscat
ntfsclone -> /usr/local/bin/ntfsclone
ntfscluster -> /usr/local/bin/ntfscluster
ntfscmp -> /usr/local/bin/ntfscmp
ntfscp -> /usr/local/bin/ntfscp
ntfsfix -> /usr/local/bin/ntfsfix
ntfsinfo -> /usr/local/bin/ntfsinfo
ntfslabel -> /usr/local/bin/ntfslabel
ntfsls -> /usr/local/bin/ntfsls
ntfsresize -> /usr/local/bin/ntfsresize
ntfsundelete -> /usr/local/bin/ntfsundelete
libntfs.9.0.0.dylib -> /usr/local/lib/libntfs.9.0.0.dylib
libntfs.9.dylib -> /usr/local/lib/libntfs.9.dylib
After this, I have a very nice, automounting setup of the latest NTFS-3G version.
Note that I'm no NTFS-3G internal, and know nothing of the inner workings of NTFS-3G. I'm just a Mac user that likes to have access to the latest and greatest versions of NTFS-3G, in order to gain read/write access to my NTFS Boot Camp partition.
Hi, this is Paul. Most seem to know me by my pseudonym, ShadowOfGed.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how or where you tracked down my packages from April, but kudos for finding them. It's OK with me for you to use them as a basis; the only code therein is a shell script.
However, I'd warn against using it. Just before I had to pull my packages, I started seeing problems where ntfs-3g.fs would start taking ownership of CD-ROMs and Disk Images in rare but aggravating cases.
Please contact me via email or something. I'd really like to help a similar project take off, and I have a wealth of information that may be of use.
Paul:
ReplyDeleteAny help would be great. :) I just sent you a mail. Hope the address on your blog account is correct, otherwise my email can be found at http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae