Wednesday, January 28, 2015

How to mount a ntfs drive on mac

Connect your hard drive to your mac.
Open a terminal window and type
> mount

You should see all your drives listed. In my case the external hard drive is listed as
> /dev/disk2s1  on /Volumes/Elements

Unmount the drive
> sudo umount /Volumes/Elements

Create a mount point. In my case I am creating a mount point in my home folder. The name of the mount point can be anything
> mkdir ~/Elements

Mount the drive on on this mount point

> sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk2s1 ~/Elements

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