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    Why I love Free/OpenSource: FUSE-> NTFS for OS X

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Wooky, Jan 17, 2007.

  1. Wooky

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    Just read this at /. and my MB is at home so I haven't tried (and hummm I have no NTFS partition that I might access from the Mac apart from Parallels') but it is great news for those who use Bootcamp or an external drive. FUSE is a filesystem driver that is being developed for Linux for some time. It is user-space instead of kernel space based, allowing for better flexibility (if somewhat worse performance). FUSE, coupled with NTFS-3g (the actual driver for the fs) actually allows writing to an NTFS filesystem! I used it once when repairing a WinXP machine which got foobared due to a dll that wouldn't allow the system to boot, even in safe mode.
    WARNING: it might not be completely safe to use it to write and delete files. Read the documentation and proceed with caution.
    Link of the project:

    http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

    PS. It seems that the dmg does not come with NTFS support pre-compiled.

    PPS. Found a dmg with the NTFS driver here:
    http://osx.iusethis.com/app/macfuse
     
    Wooky, Jan 17, 2007
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