help with setting up ntfs-3g

Hey guys,
This a question to all those who have successfully set up ntfs-3g. How do you do it? Could someone give me some step by step directions because I'm seriously confused. I think I may have messed up my laptop in many ways over the last hour with me trying to follow 3 tutorials simultaneously unsuccessfully. Thanks a lot if you guys can help!

 

Most of the tutorials are for the time when you still needed to compile macfuse and ntfs-3g yourself. Now that there are dmg files available it is just installed like any other program.

 

1. http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list. Download 0.4.0. Install it like any other installation package. Follow Directions. Reboot (not necessary, but old habits die hard).
2. http://www.ntfs-3g.com/. Pick a packaging format. Click the link. follow directions specific to that format.

Example: binary format
a) http://www.daniel-johnson.org/. Download this:
http://homepage.mac.com/danielj7/NTFS-3G.pkg.tar.bz2
b) install it like any other program
c) launch diskutil (applications -> utilities -> diskutil)
d) select windows paritition, unmount windows partition
e) open terminal
f) type "diskutil list" - find your windows partition's identifier. Should be obvious from the name
g) type mkdir /Volumes/blah, where "blah" can be replaced with anything
h) type /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/blah -ovolname="Windows Disk"
*where disk1s1 should be replaced with whatever your Windows partition identifier is from Step F above (disk_s_)
**where "blah" is the name of the directory you created in Step G above.
***where "Windows Disk" can be replaced with whatever you want the name of the drive to show up as in Finder or on your desktop

EDIT: if you're not in root, you might need to add sudo at the beginning of the line
Also, to mount it in the future, just repeat the last step.
also, you can do "echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"' >>~/.profile"
in this case you only need to type ntfs-3g instead of the whole /usr/...etc. path in the last step.

 

thanks alot tael I'll try this right now haha

 

cool i think it works. Don't really get the last part but im trying to figure it out

 

yeah don't get last part
and when i say last part i mean echo.
for me i have to retype the last 2 lines. any way of getting around this? in layman's terms that is