Script to write permission for NTFS drives in MacOS

Mac OS mount NTFS formatted drives in read-only mode. Most simplest way to get write access is to add entry in /etc/fstab system file by using Naive NTFS, though it's not stable, but it's the cheapest and easiest way to mount drives with write access.

1. Open terminal

2. Download the zip

   curl -LJO https://github.com/vaibhavsingh97/ntfsfix/archive/v0.2.zip

3. Extract zip

   unzip ntfsfix-0.2.zip

4. Go to directory

   cd ntfsfix-0.2/

5. Run following command

   make install

1. Go to directory

   cd ntfsfix-0.2/

2. Run following command

   make uninstall

• Insert NTFS formatted drive

• ntfsfix need root permission. Use with sudo

  sudo ntfsfix

• ntfsfix will find NTFS formatted Drives you connected with your Mac OS and mount all these Drives with write permission.

• You will not see the drive in Finder's Devices.

• Open Finder and navigate to Desktop

• Now you can See your Drive in Desktop folder and now you can write any Data.

Mac OS natively doesn't provide support write for NTFS formatted drive.

Script will not add add duplicate config in fstab. It will skip the drive.

It's lest secure but it doesn't harm anything. I am not liable if you experience problems. I wrote this script as I don't want to pay for those expensive software.

The code is available under the MIT license.