Is there a way to prevent Mac OS X creating .DS_Store and other hidden meta-files on foreign volumes like NTFS and FAT? I share an NTFS partition with data like Thunderird & Firefox's profiles and apache's DocumentRoot, between Mac OS X and Windows, which is very handy. I don't mind if Mac OS X is not capable of indexing or otherwise doing the neat things those metafiles are for.
Note: It's not shared over a network, both operating systems and the shared partition coexist on the same disk, on the same machine.
Answer
If you are sharing the NTFS partition over a network, using SMB or some such, you can turn it off.
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
Apple tech bulletin "How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections". I have not verified that this still works with Snow Leopard.
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