Help Fixing NTFS terminal commands please

Let me start by saying, from my research, I would advise against enabling native write support (via terminal like you tried to do) as there are a number of instability issues which I came across. In the end I ended up using the combo of Fuse for OSX, NTFS-3g, and the fuse-wait patch (to correct the timeout error on 10.7+) and reading/writing to NTFS drives works flawlessly for me on 10.8.4.

Now back to your problem. From what I've gathered from what you wrote, you didn't totally understand what those files did, as from what I'm reading you essentially completely stopped mount_ntfs from running at all, which is causing your no mount issue.

What you basically did was rename the original binary mount_ntfs file, create a new mount_ntfs as a script in which you refer back to the old file while giving it read/write authority. Then you went in to try and fix your problem by deleting the contents of the new mount_ntfs script file, and now you have no reference to the original mount_ntfs file to mount the ntfs hard drive. So....

The easiest way to fix this is to delete the new mount_ntfs file (not just deleting the contents), and then rename back the mount_ntfs.orig to mount_ntfs.

The fix should be quick and easy, but the following is going to be a bit simplified and long, as I don't want you messing anything up and thus making things more difficult for you.

Now before you go doing this let us just verify that the old file is intact before we go moving things around. (If at anytime something is off from my instructions please stop and let me know, unless you know exactly yourself why the deviation occurred.)

Open terminal and do the following....

- Verify that the old mount_ntfs file is still there by typing 'file /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig'

- You should get back something like 'mount_ntfs.orig: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64'

- If that file is still there, lets check to make sure that the new mount_ntfs is indeed an empty script file like I think it is, type 'cat /sbin/mount_ntfs'

- If there is no output from that command, then we are good to go to the next step, if there is output (or anything other than #!/bin/sh or that other line your originally wrote) please let me know.

- To be a bit safer here we will move into the sbin directory so type 'cd /sbin'

- Now we are going to remove the new file you created, type 'sudo rm mount_ntfs'

- Now we are going to move the old file back to its original name, type 'sudo mv mount_ntfs.orig mount_ntfs'

- Now restart your computer and the drive should be mountable again as it was before you started messing about with the terminal.


On another note, you said that you edited your fstab in another attempt to try to enable native write support. Is that line which you entered still in your fstab file? If so you may want to delete that line before trying to install NTFS-3g or other 3rd party ntfs driver, just so there are no conflicts.

 

I used the terminal for activating the w/r in an external disk

Hi!

I have the same problem as Jessec80, but the difference is that I do not have the file mount_ntfs.orig, it says:

/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig: cannot open `/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig' (No such file or directory)

and then with the line 'cat /sbin/mount_ntfs' it shows a lot of characters like trash.

At the very beginning I wanted to make my disk be read and written in mac, so I used the command sudo nano /etc/fstab and then LABEL=OneTouch4 none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse. At the beginning it worked perfect, but I could use it just as a “hidden“ disk because it never appeared again in the finder, so I used a command to make it appear in a folder named volumes in the desktop. I do not what happened, but now I cannot see the files it is like the disk is empty even though in the information it shows the real space used and available.

Please Tag, do you know how to fix this please?