Is There Any Official Apple Documentation on Enabling NTFS Write Support Using /etc/fstab?

Take a moment to think about this.....if Apple has an NTFS driver within macOS, but only is using the read-only support....why do you think they would do that? Maybe because writing to an NTFS volume is dangerous & unsupported or because Apple doesn't want people to use what they worked hard to implement?

Reading a file system/volume is much easier than writing to a file system/volume. If a mistake is made while reading from a volume....no harm, no foul you will probably notice the bad data....it won't change what is actually stored on the volume. However, a mistake writing to a file system/volume can easily corrupt or wipe out everything.....you may not even know about it until much much later & your backups are unlikely to go back far enough to recover. Even using a third party drive is risky.....how well have they implemented that support? Only Microsoft knows of all the idiosyncrasies of their NTFS implementation....they are not know for the best design or documentation of those designs.

File systems are extremely difficult to implement even when there is a fully trusted standard to follow.

Apple does not support writing to NTFS drives. There are third-party apps that will add writing to NTFS volumes available. How well they work and if they are compatible with Tahoe I can't say.

If these drivers are only going to be used on a Mac, use applications-> Utt-> Disk Utility to reformat them APFS. This will erase the contents of the drive.

If you are just using the disk to transfer files between Windows and Mac, then consider reformatting to exFAT, as both Windows and Mac can read & write exFAT. Again, reformatting will erase the existing data.

You could also consider just using the network to transfer the data via an SMB Windows file share, between the Windows and Mac systems.

HWTech wrote:

Take a moment to think about this.....if Apple has an NTFS driver within macOS, but only is using the read-only support....why do you think they would do that? Maybe because writing to an NTFS volume is dangerous & unsupported or because Apple doesn't want people to use what they worked hard to implement?

I suspect it is more a licensing issue with Microsoft.

dg020 wrote:

Anyway, at least I like the full support of NTFS on Mac natively. I am sure I am not asking too much from a trillion-dollar company.

Just to point out, if you want to actually ask that trillion-dollar company, this is not the place to do so. “We” are users like you and have no power to implement any suggestions. To have Apple consider your feedback, submit it here:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

Does the other trillion-dollar company that is relevant to this discussion natively support Apple's file systems? Can a Windows PC even read an APFS-formatted drive natively, let alone write to it? No, I didn't think so.

FWIW, Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software claims to be Tahoe compatible. My guess is, if all that was required is to modify the /etc/fstab file, Paragon NTFS wouldn't be over 100MBs.