My mac won't let me access /etc/fstab, and hfs.util won't even show me what the UUID is.
I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and bought NTFS 4TB Seagate USB3.0 drive.
Plugged in, Mac allowed me to read files from it, but not write to it. When I select 'Get Info' for the volume/disk, I see 'You can read only'
under 'Sharing & Permissions'.
I copied a large file from Windows 10 to the USB Drive, worked fine. I then downloaded the file to Mac, worked fine, but won't allow me to write anything from Mac to the USB drive, or make any changes to it eg. delete or rename files on the USB drive.
My reason for getting this USB drive formatted in NTFS was to copy files from Mac larger than 4GB to Windows for redundant backup, because of 4GB limit in FAT.
One solution I found online was to sudo echo UUID to /etc/fstab
When I diskutil info, I don't get UUID.
I also see the following extracts:
File System Personality: NTFS
Type (Bundle): ntfs
Name (User Visible): Windows NT File System (NTFS)
&
Read-Only Media: No
Read-Only Volume: Yes
Ejectable: Yes
My solution was to download Samsung NTFS for Mac Driver from:
https://www.seagate.com/au/en/support/downloads/item/samsung-ntfs-driver-master-dl/
After installation & reboot, I noticed the following changes:
- When I select 'Get Info' for the volume/disk, I see
'You can read and write'
under 'Sharing & Permissions'.
2.
File System Personality: UFSD_NTFS
Type (Bundle): ufsd_NTFS
Name (User Visible): Windows NT Filesystem
3.
Read-Only Media: No
Read-Only Volume: No
Ejectable: Yes
The readme file (pdf) that comes with the download says NTFS features also work in Mac for the USB drive.
Now I can read/write to the disk, and is also visible in Finder. I've tested read & write speeds with a 2GB file, and don't see any difference in performance/speed between the NTFS & HFS+ Journaled volumes.
Finally after 2 days of reading about sudo, hfs.util & diskutil, I can now get back to backing up data from Mac 10.6 to USB NTFS drive.