MacOS – Enable writing to NTFS harddrive with non-standard name on Mac

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I have a lot of NTFS hard drives back when I used a Windows PC. I'm trying to write to these drives with my Macbook Pro on OSX Yosemite 10.10.2. I'm going through this tutorial. I have to write this line in /etc/fstab

LABEL=drivename none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

The caveat is that "drivename" must not contain spaces. My drives have spaces. For example, one is named "HGST Deskstar". Also, another shows up as "Untitled" (it's probably not literally named Untitled). I couldn't figure out how to rename my drives to conform to the standard. What should I do?

I know there's software that you can install to handle this, but I was hoping to just do this quick system configuration.

Best Answer

You can use the UUID instead of the volume label however a word of warning about using the built-in NTFS Write capability of OS X... It's not stable and I'd highly recommend using a third party utility. I use the paid version of Tuxera NTFS for Mac and enable/disable as needed. IMO it's faster and more safe then the built-in.

Example:

UUID=4485D2B9-C375-5240-8F5A-2225B24332EB none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

You can get the Universal Unique Identifier of the Partition from Get Info in Disk Utility. Select the target partition then either click the Info icon on the Toolbar, press Command-I or click File > Get Info.

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