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I've installed Homebrew, FUSE for OS X and NTFS-3G. It helped to see external partitions (FAT32 and NTFS) when SIP is disabled (OS X El Capitan). But when SIP is enabled, I can't see NTFS and FAT32 external partitions in Finder and Disk Utility. When I run command diskutil list in a Terminal, it shows all partitions, including NTFS and FAT32.

What should I do now to read/write with SIP enabled?

Output from diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            499.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +499.0 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 DD75E058-1FC0-4B05-B0F2-FB02A06EC189
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                80.9 GB    disk2s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS osxboot                 53.2 GB    disk2s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data NF                      365.6 GB   disk2s4

After command 'diskutil info /Volumes/NF' Result was 'Could not find disk: /Volumes/NF'

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  • Since you're using NTFS I'll assume you have a Windows system that you can attach the external drives to and run chkdsk /f <drive letter>: on from an Administrator Command Prompt, e.g., chkdsk /f e: and then try mounting again under OS X. This will ensure there are no issue with the filesystem, which under some circumstances may cause them not to mount properly.
    – user3439894
    Commented Dec 28, 2015 at 17:34
  • thanks, for advice - I did what you've suggested, but nothing has changed. Both partitions has normally functioning file systems. Anyway, now I'll know how to fix file system on Win :)
    – ade
    Commented Dec 28, 2015 at 21:40

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The reason that FUSE will not run with SIP enabled, is that (amongst other things) SIP blocks changes to the /sbin filesystem location by default and this is where the "mount_XXXX" executable lives.

Instead of turning SIP off completely you can disable just the part that protects the filesystem support by running the following command in a recovery console.

csrutil enable --without fs

This is the recommended way to get the NTFS module working in FUSE by the people who maintain OSXFUSE.

Note that the command will give you the following warning but it will work for now.

csrutil: requesting an unsupported configuration. This is likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state.

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  • I did as you recommended, and I've got this: System Integrity Protection status: enabled (Custom Configuration). Configuration: Apple Internal: disabled Kext Signing: enabled Filesystem Protections: disabled Debugging Restrictions: enabled DTrace Restrictions: enabled NVRAM Protections: enabled This is an unsupported configuration, likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state.' But still I can't see neither ntfs nor fat32 partition.
    – ade
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 10:49
  • So they still appear okay under diskutil list but don't appear in Disk Utility? Could you add the output of the diskutil list command to your question?
    – Alistair McMillan
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 11:36
  • I've added diskutil list to my question.
    – ade
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 14:08
  • @ade What happens if you just type open /Volumes/NF or open /Volumes/BOOTCAMP in a Terminal window?
    – Alistair McMillan
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 14:43
  • When I write those commands, I'm getting the answers: 'the file /Volumes/NF does not exist' and 'the file /Volumes/BOOTCAMP does not exist' respectively.
    – ade
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 21:49

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