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TechieJustin

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Nov 22, 2009
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Pennsylvania, USA
I am using the native NTFS read/write support via the /etc/fstab "hack" for lack of a better term.
Since I routinely transfer files bigger than 4GB on a jumpdrive between Windows 7 and OSX I don't really have a choice but to use NTFS.
I would rather use this than MacFuse/ntfs-3g since I think it is faster.

When I write something to the drive and take it to the Windows 7 machine, the security on the newly written file is set to admin - I have to log in as the admin on the Win7 machine, right click and change the security settings. When I formatted the drive initially (on the Win7 machine), I set it for full control for everyone.
Is there a way to force OSX to write the file with the same permissions as the drive?
 
My $.02 is that I'd rather use a supported application to provide write abilities in ntfs instead of a "hack" messing with file systems could leave the file system corrupted if this hack goes wrong.
 
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