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Mac OS X: Disk Utility - All options dimmed for a disk that was formatted as NTFS in

Disk Utility may be unable to modify (or erase) a disk after it is formatted as NTFS in Microsoft Windows XP. All of the options in Disk Utility may be dimmed ("grayed out"). The drive may also appear with a Write Status of "Read Only". Note: Before erasing a disk, you should back up any important files on it to a different disk.

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MOUNT_NTFS(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					     MOUNT_NTFS(8)

NAME

     mount_ntfs -- mount an NTFS file system

SYNOPSIS

     mount_ntfs [-s] [-o options] special node

DESCRIPTION

     The mount_ntfs command attaches the NTFS file system residing on the device special to the global file system namespace at the location indi-
     cated by node.  This command is normally executed by mount(8) at boot time, but can be used by any user to mount an NTFS file system on any
     directory that they own (provided, of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that contains the file system).

     The options are as follows:

     -s      Mount the volume using case sensitive semantics.  This means that you can create files that have names that only differ in case such
	     as for example "foo" and "Foo".  Without this option the volume is mounted using case insensitive semantics in which case if you cre-
	     ate a file with name "foo" you then cannot create a file named "Foo" or rather if you do create a file named "Foo" it would overwrite
	     the existing file "foo".

     -o      Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separated string of options.  See the mount(8) man page for possible options
	     and their meanings.

SEE ALSO

     mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)

HISTORY

     This NTFS implementation first appeared in Mac OS X 10.5.

AUTHORS

     This NTFS implementation was written by Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>.

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