How To Mount R/W NTFS USB hard drive in Big Sur – Techs11

How To Mount R/W NTFS USB hard drive in Big Sur

January 18, 2022 | 375 views | idog

Since Big Sur security is too tight, I can’t install ntfs-3g using brew.sh anymore. So I found a way on the internet to mount external USB NTFS hard drive to write and read from it, sometime it works, sometimes it doesn’t using fstab file.. I still need to install macFuse and brew.sh to install ntfs-3g but I need to use different command to mount the external NTFS partition.

brew tap gromgit/homebrew-fuse

brew install --cask macfuse

brew install ntfs-3g-mac

After installed everything, turn on show all files and copy the whole directory 2021.8.22 from usr/local/Cellar/ntfs-3g-mac/ to the /User/louis/ and rename it to anything easy to access like “ntfs”

Plug in the USB NTFS hard drive.
Use diskutil list to find out the disk and partition. After we find the disk and partition, then UNMOUNT the partition then type the command (assuming the partition is disk3s1)