I’ve installed NTFS-3g but as far as I can tell it only allows me to mount and write to NTFS partitions, I need to actually create one. Free as in beer.

    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 month ago

      I did see someone else suggest this. I guess it sounds a bit timid but the idea kind of freaked me out. I’d feel ok doing this on a desktop PC but I feel like trying to boot from a USB drive on a Mac is going to run in to all kinds of headaches and nasty surprises and I’m worried I could brick a very expensive piece of machinery. I guess this particular fear is what people are talking about when they say they don’t feel like they really own their computer unless they’re using linux. Maybe I’m worrying about nothing, is there anything to it other than plugging in a usb and starting up the machine?

        • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 month ago

          Have to use an NTFS formatted drive to take a DCP master of a film to a cinema for a test screening. The cinema says they need NTFS. I somewhat doubt that’s really the case but one never knows what oddities might surprisingly be the case for obscure hardware like cinema servers. I used a windows computer I could access in the end because I couldn’t figure out how to get this to work but I was trying to acquire the capability for future such cases so I wouldn’t need to do that next time.

  • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    I think I used Tuxera for a few years but it wasn’t ideal (I’d have to drag the drive to a Windows computer every once in a while to fix the boot record or something that would get corrupted by Mac OS whenever it got finnicky about disconnecting it)