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Originally Posted by jobberone
Installed two SATA drives in enclosure connected via firewire to iMac. Will only read. Want to share drives with Windows based so formatted NTFS. Have tried a downloaded utility that's supposed to make them RW but doesn't work. Running Mountain Lion BTW.
In terminal now and typed sudo nano /etc/fstab to get to editor.
Have written in editor
UUID=C440781A-40A9-ACC4-60C4-ACD2ECACD2E4 none ntfs rw
UUID=7866522B-6663-4678-8778-46DA8C46DA86 none ntfs rw
I don't know how to write and save this then exit to restart machine. What do I do from here? Thanks.
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You want to write the below into /etc/fstab correct?
UUID=C440781A-40A9-ACC4-60C4-ACD2ECACD2E4 none ntfs rw
UUID=7866522B-6663-4678-8778-46DA8C46DA86 none ntfs rw
1. Make a backup copy of fstab (filesystem tab)
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab-20130119
2. I am assuming you do not know VI. So use echo to update the file.
sudo echo "UUID=C440781A-40A9-ACC4-60C4-ACD2ECACD2E4 none ntfs rw" >> /etc/fstab
sudo echo "UUID=7866522B-6663-4678-8778-46DA8C46DA86 none ntfs rw" >> /etc/fstab
3. Check the file for the updates.
sudo cat /etc/fstab