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.
I mean if you just need to quickly make a partition booting into gparted live would be an easy way. Plus it never hurts to have a USB drive ready to boot that anyways. But that’s just because I am unfamiliar with Mac stuff. If that’s not to your liking maybe someone else knows
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?
It’s entirely okay and valid to be nervous stepping out of your comfort zone. I think with Mac it’s just holding a key at boot but my Mac experience is minimal at best. What exactly is your use case for formatting in NTFS?
