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Are there any free tools that allow me to create NTFS partitions available for MacOS? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[+] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] rebelsimile 1 points 1 week 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)