I'm trying to enable macOS El Capitan's built in read/write support for NTFS, but it doesn't seem to be working. First of all; I'm aware it's not the fastest, and no officially supported, but my needs for it aren't critical (nor the data super important, it's just games).
Anyway, I've followed the usual guides to enabling support, and my /etc/fstab
looks like:
UUID=E2E3FA2C-5B6D-4510-B4F6-E370A09B0AF6 none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse
However, when attempting to mount the drive with diskutil mount disk0s9
I get the following error:
Volume on disk0s9 failed to mount
If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option
If I remove the fstab entry the volume mounts just fine in read-only mode, and under Windows I can confirm that it is undamaged. It's strange as this is the exact method I've used successfully in the past (not with the same partition though).
Here's the diskutil info
output for the partition:
Device Identifier: disk0s9
Device Node: /dev/disk0s9
Whole: No
Part of Whole: disk0
Device / Media Name: Windows_NTFS_Untitled_2
Volume Name: Games
Mounted: No
File System Personality: NTFS
Type (Bundle): ntfs
Name (User Visible): Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Partition Type: Microsoft Basic Data
OS Can Be Installed: No
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: SATA
SMART Status: Verified
Volume UUID: E2E3FA2C-5B6D-4510-B4F6-E370A09B0AF6
Disk / Partition UUID: 0C407B03-62D7-4C64-BC5C-3C57668C2F2E
Total Size: 249.2 GB (249152208896 Bytes) (exactly 486625408 512-Byte-Units)
Volume Free Space: 0 B (0 Bytes) (exactly 0 512-Byte-Units)
Device Block Size: 512 Bytes
Read-Only Media: No
Read-Only Volume: Not applicable (not mounted)
Device Location: Internal
Removable Media: No
Solid State: Yes
In case it may be relevant; the partition was formatted natively by Windows 10.
The only suspicious thing to me is the device/media name of Windows_NTFS_Untitled_2
, whereas for a Windows OS partition it is 'Basic data partition', but I'm sure that's important.
Any ideas why this isn't mounting in read/write mode? I had hoped to use built-in support to avoid having to install FUSE etc., which I assume still involves disabling system integrity protection?
Duplicate
This issue is not a duplicate as proposed; the other issue only asks how to enable read/write, however I already know how I'm supposed to be able to do it using the built-in driver, but am unable to do-so. In other words this question is asking why setting the rw
option in /etc/fstab
no longer appears to work (and how it can be fixed), rather than how can I get read/write support in the first place.
It is absolutely not an exact duplicate of the proposed original.