Jan 09, '08 07:30:01AM • Contributed by: Sven G
But sadly, as of now, the only way to have the Boot Camp volume show up in the Startup Disk System Preferences panel with NTFS-3G installed and active is to have it mounted by Apple's integrated NTFS driver. (NTFS-3G can still mount other available NTFS volumes read-write, of course: indeed, this hint is useful in such cases. Otherwise, one shouldn't really need NTFS-3G, or should use it with the current restriction of no Startup Disk integration). To do so, open a Terminal window and do this:
$ cd /Volumes/NameOfYourBootCampDrive
$ sudo pico .ntfs-readonly
Then save the file with the usual Control-O, Enter, Control-X. Finally, unmount and remount (with Disk Utility) your Boot Camp partition. This creates an (invisible from OS X) .ntfs-readonly file at the root of your Boot Camp volume, thus telling NTFS-3G to bypass this volume and let it be mounted by Apple's read-only driver. Of course, you will have read-only access to the Boot Camp volume, but it will still show up in Startup Disk.
Let's hope they'll eventually fix this in better ways (see full read-write integration between NTFS-3G and Startup Disk)...
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]
