This is just a little site where I can document some things which other people may, or may not, find interesting. It ain’t fancy, just some handwritten HTML and a sprinkling of CSS.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
NTFS-3G.pkg is now at version 1.1120. This package is best used with MacFuse 1.1 or later.
The Fink ntfs-3g package(link currently down) has also been updated. Fink's fuse package has been updated to 1.1 and now builds on 10.4 and 10.5.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
NTFS-3G.pkg is now at version 1.1104. Some people have been having trouble with ntfs-3g when using MacFuse 1.0.0. There’s some discussion about the issue here. The next version of MacFuse will hopefully fix this.
The Fink ntfs-3g package has also been updated.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
NTFS-3G.pkg is now at version 1.1030. It’s now built against MacFuse 1.0.0 and should be compatible with both 10.4 and 10.5.
The Fink ntfs-3g package has also been updated. Unfortunately, the fuse package currently in fink will not build on 10.5, though if you built it on 10.4 it will still work. This modified fuse.info file will let you build fuse on 10.5 until the package gets updated. Put in in /sw/fink/10.5/local/main/finkinfo/libs to use it. You will need to create the directory if it doesn’t exist.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
NTFS-3G.pkg is now at version 1.1004 and the Uninstall NTFS-3G.command script is back after being left out last time.
The Fink ntfs-3g package has also been updated, although it could take a while for that page to reflect the new version.
Monday, August 27, 2007
I’ve made a new package of NTFS-3G 1.826. It also now includes the ntfsprogs utilities, and a script called Uninstall NTFS-3G.command which does what it says.
See the file README.txt for usage tips.
Friday, August 3, 2007
I didn’t make it clear in the package notes, but the ntfs-3g command is installed in /usr/local/bin. Unfortunately, I forgot that Mac OS X doesn’t put /usr/local/bin in your $PATH by default, so just typing the command without a full pathname won’t work.
So there are two possibilties: type the command out in full as /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g, or add /usr/local/bin to your $PATH. Type this command in the Terminal to be able to just use ntfs-3g:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"' >>~/.profile
I’ve also been asked how to remove the installed files. Run these commands in the Terminal to do so:
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g sudo rm /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g sudo rm -r /usr/local/share/doc/ntfs-3g sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man8/*ntfs-3g.8
Finally, I’ve had questions about having NTFS-3G automatically mounting volumes read/write without having to manually unmount them first. Unfortunately, this is not easy to do because Apple’s NTFS driver always gets first crack at mounting NTFS disks and does so read-only. There is some discussion here about replacing a Apple-installed file to force the use of NTFS-3G, but it is very risky to do this unless you know exactly what you are doing. Use at your own risk.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
NTFS-3G is a FUSE filesystem that implements read/write NTFS volumes. NTFS-3G now works on Macs using MacFUSE. I’ve had a Fink package for NTFS-3g for a while now, but since I’ve had so many people asking about a binary version, I decided to make an Installer package.
This package doesn’t use Fink, but instead requires the MacFUSE Core package from here. Then download the NTFS-3G package and install it. This package contains ntfs-3g 1.710.
To connect to an NTFS volume:
First unmount the NTFS disk if currently mounted read-only. You can use Disk Utility to do this and also to get the partition. You can also use the following script to get a list of available NTFS volumes:
diskutil list | grep Windows_NTFS
The last thing on each line should be something like disk1s1 which is the disk partition. Prefix it with /dev/ to get the value to pass to ntfs-3g. You can use the option -ovolname to specify a name for the Finder to display. Example:
mkdir /Volumes/ntfs ntfs-3g /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/ntfs -ovolname="Windows Disk"
Be sure to substitute your disk partition for /dev/disk1s1. Using a mount point of /Volumes/something allows better integration with the Finder. In this example, I'm using /Volumes/ntfs.
To disconnect:
umount /Volumes/ntfs
or eject from the Finder.
See ntfs-3g man page for more options.
Sunday, July 9, 2006
FinkInfoFile can now be installed with the fink command on 10.4/unstable. Selfupdate and then “fink install finkinfofile” will get you the latest. To actually activate the importer, you must run “sudo finkinfofile install” afterwards to install it into /Library/Spotlight. The archive is now called “finkinfofile-1.3.tar.bz2” and is available here.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
This has actually been floating around for a while now, but I saw someone on the #fink IRC channel talking about it and I thought I should have a site that mentions it. :-)
This is a very simple Spotlight importer that indexes Fink package description files, AKA info files since they end with the extension .info. You can then use Spotlight to search for info files using various criteria.
Instructions and source code (licensed under the GPL) are included along with an Installer package. The zipped archive can be downloaded here.
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