There are hacks and plugins for Mac OS X to read and write NTFS as
well, I just believe that the problem with including it in the OS as a
built-in feature stems from it being a proprietary file system.
Otherwise, I think both Mac and Linux would have already offered it
out of the box, particularly given that readability of the NTFS file
system already is available.
On 6 Nov 2007, at 15:30, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
I think that's not strictly true. *nix-based systems have
experimental support for creating NTFS file systems with the mkfnts
command that is part of the linux-ntfs project:
http://man.linux-ntfs.org/mkntfs.8.html
There's a blog about the Mac port of this project:
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
For the moment, however, it's probably easier to make a FAT32 file
system and then convert it to NTFS from Windows.
These things aren't simple though, to say the least. Why does the OP
wish to create a NTFS system in the first place? Maybe there's an
easier way to accomplish the end goal.
