Users running Mac OS X are often stumped when trying to write onto most external hard drive’s as normally they are bought, they usually come in the NTFS File System format which you can read the drive natively in Mac OS X but not write onto it. This is because this is the file system that Windows uses, and whether us mac users like it or not, that is the bigger market. Instead of reformatting the hard drive to FAT32 and being stuck with the annoying 4GB individual file limit, that is a pain, if like me you have HD Movies and the like which can be anywhere from 2GB to 30GB, FAT32 is not ideal.
Recently Amit Singh, a Google employee, releases a implementation called MacFUSE which makes it possible to use any FUSE (File-system in USErspace) file systems in Mac. And the most useful FUSE is the NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver, which ables system to load NTFS with read and write capability. This is truly the greatest news for dual booting Mac OS X and Windows XP or Vista.
Without going into great deal of technical details and compilation of the source code, I found out users around Internet already came up with binary version (in DMG) of MacFUSE and ntfs-3g, ready to install (credit to ShadowOfGed at AppleNova). Here are the instructions on how to use MacFUSE and NTFS-3G.
Simply:
1) Download macfuse and install
2) Download NTFS-3G and install
MacFUSE/NTFS-3G works for me, but as this is an experimental software, so back up your data, and try it at your own risk.
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