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Once you have done that, simply press Control-O to save and Control-X to exit the editor. Make sure to change DRIVENAME with the exact name of your drive as it is case-sensitive (if your drive name contains capital letters, make sure that you also write them as capital letters when providing the name within the command). Now that you have launched the editor, you need to write the following command: LABEL= DRIVENAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse This is your Mac's system configuration file that mainly handles disk partitions and other file systems. This will open an editor (called nano) that will let you edit your fstab (file systems table) file.
#How to format using ntfs on mac password
Just put the entire password and press "Enter". Don't be afraid if nothing appears on the screen when typing your password, it's normal. Once you have launched the Terminal, write the following command and provide your admin password when prompted. You might want to make sure your NTFS drive has a simple single-word name as you will be using it when writing a command and the Terminal interprets the space between words as a new command.