Creating mount rules for NTFS/ExtFS volumes using Paragon Driver with FSTAB file

In some cases you might need to create certain rules for your NTFS/ExtFS volumes like not mounting Volume automatically or mount it with only read permissions. You can use fstab file for this – the file /etc/fstab is consulted for user-defined mount points, indexed
by filesystem, in the mount point determination for a filesystem. Each Volume can be identified by its UUID or by its label, using the constructs “UUID” or “LABEL”, respectively.

Here are some examples:

LABEL=BOOTCAMP none ufsd_NTFS ro (mount volume BOOTCAMP with read-only access)

LABEL=EXTERNAL_NTFS none ufsd_NTFS rw (mount volume EXTERNAL_NTFS with read and write access)

LABEL=DONT_AUTO_MOUNT_THIS_VOLUME none ufsd_ExtFS rw, noauto (this ExtFS volume won’t be mounted automatically).

ufsd_NTFS – name of Paragon NTFS driver for Mac OS X.
ufsd_ExtFS – name of Paragon ExtFS driver for Mac OS X.

If it doesn’t work with LABEL, try to use volume UUID.

To find out Volume UUID you can do this:

1. open terminal application and run diskutil list
2. Find identificator of Volume in question in diskutil list output (for example Disk1s3)
3. in terminal run diskutil info disk1s3
4. In the output of this command  you will find Volume UUID.

General, HowTos: Mac OS X, Know how: Mac OS X, NTFS for Mac OS X
Tags: extfs, ExtFS for Mac, fstab, mount, ntfs, NTFS for Mac

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