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NTFS Driver

  • January 23, 2013
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This isn't specifically Casper related. I'm wondering what others are using to enable their users to write to external NTFS drives? Looking for something (hopefully free) that I can easily push out.

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  • January 23, 2013

MacFuse: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ - deployment might be a little fiddly, but overall we've had success with this product.


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  • January 23, 2013

Try FUSE for OS X (the successor to MacFuse) http://osxfuse.github.com
(MacFuse closed up shop on development in 2009 and never made it to Lion or later)


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  • January 23, 2013

Thanks guys. FUSE looks very interesting.

Tom


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  • January 23, 2013

isn't fuse just a platform, but you need like tuxera or something in addition?


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  • January 23, 2013

I use tuxera it's very good for video machines when a Window user needs a massive 5+gb file copied to a drive and fat32 won't do.


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  • January 23, 2013

We're using Paragon NTFS for Mac here. Seems to work quite well apart from it doesn't show up in the JSS applications list and licenced software list. (Probably because it doesn't install an .app bundle).


bentoms
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  • January 23, 2013

We reformat the drives as ExFAT.

Then it works nicer cross platform.


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  • January 23, 2013

How do you do that Ben?


bentoms
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  • January 23, 2013

Disk Utility. :)

Copy data off, refomat as ExFat.. Copy data back.


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  • January 23, 2013

Thats great cheers :)


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  • January 23, 2013

What partition map scheme?


bentoms
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  • January 23, 2013

GUID works.

Master Boot should only be needed if using the HD to boot a PC (I think).

Definately not Apple Partition Map.


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  • January 23, 2013

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  • January 23, 2013

exFAT's fine if you don't have any windows XP machines in the mix. If you need to work with XP as well, I prefer Tuxera's NTFS driver over Paragon's. I've had users experience some data loss and corruption with paragon (not a ton, but there have been some issues) while I've never seen a problem with Tuxera.


bentoms
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  • January 23, 2013

Internally, Windows 7 & 10.6+.

But very valid point.

Meh, whom uses XP anymore? Isn't that like 10 year old??? (Vaguely remembering the MSBlaster virus & 1st IT job).


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  • January 23, 2013

If a freelancer or client is on XP then I'm screwed. Lost count how many times I asked "So what OS you on?" Followed by a deadly silence and a "erm..."

Think ill wait until XP support ends April 8th 2014.


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  • January 23, 2013

my org still has about 2500 machines running XP . . . <lolsob>