_+I take no responsability, nor shall I.blahblahblah.you know the drill.+_ If you need that much info you should probably not mess with this stuff. I could have explained that one creates the file with "+sudo nano /etc/fstab+", but I won't. In my case, my Bootcamp partition is called BOOTCAMP, and one of my ntfs usb-drives I whish to write to is called LaCie500. *-in it put the following statement: LABEL= none ntfs rw* But if you don't understand what it actually is that you're doing there, just stay away from this. Drag entire directory-trees over.no problem. There's more: don't do silly things, like undoing a move operation on the NTFS drive, or 'get info' on a 200GB drive with 6000 songs and 300 folders on it.īut simple read/write operations will work, so you can finally put those +4GB files somewhere now. Same goes for Bootcamp: if you crashed your windows -and therewith the NTFS partition or drive wasn't properly closed- don't even try accessing it with the Mac, until you've done a proper windows boot & shutdown on it. Trust me: be religious about the 'safely removing the external drive' feature in windows (if you intend to use that drive on the Mac later), and on the Mac: remove the drive properly. This is really not recommended for average mac-users. Unsupported, and could lead to serious problems. Let me just once more stress that this is don't be a tease, just post it and let the mods decide. I'm new here: can I publish that? Are people at all interested? Since I'm not really interested in just yes/no's and people devaluating my claims. Therefor it requires a tiny little tweak in OS X. So there: the faq is right it's disabled. It is nevertheless apparently undocumented and unsupported, and we have to assume: for a reason. Naturally Apple doesn't want to support such an easily messed up feature (just like the simple -windows- 'cut & paste').Ĭan do it. In this case operations are a bit more delicate however. Hard reset a machine that doesn't respond properly.etc. We're all used to plug and play, just take out the USB-drive, and laugh at the warning that comes up. In Apple's defense: it's dangerous of course, messing with Bootcamp or external drives. So don't say it's just not true, that's a bit too absolute for my taste. Simply upgraded Leopard to Snow -official release-, only running native Apple software. Steve & Bill & friends make deals.that's no news.īe that as it may: my Snow happily writes to both Bootcamp (NTFS) and external NTFS drives (provided they were +safely removed+ from previous station they were attached to) without the aid of 3rd party drives. For political or technical reasons, whatever. Still, Apple's claims are not always entirely accurate. Perhaps others can comment.Granted guys & girls, about the FAQ and all. Whether that's a viable option, I don't know. Apparently exfat is supported in Snow Leopard, and you can get exfat support in Ubuntu by installing exfat-fuse and exfat-utils. Perhaps it has improved now - I have no recent experience.įor files > 4GB there's also a third possibilty: exfat. When I did this a few years ago, it seemed to be less reliable and certainly much slower than the Linux ntfs-3g driver. NTFS read-write support is good in Ubuntu, but Snow Leopard can only read NTFS unless you install the Mac ntfs-3g driver. If you do need to transfer files > 4GB then you could consider NTFS. If you are wanting to transfer video files, this might be an issue, but if not, go for FAT32. FAT32 is supported read-write out of the box in both Snow Leopard and Ubuntu and is the simplest option, but has the disadvantage that the file size limit is 4GB. The easiest and quickest way is to use a Microsoft filesystem which circumvents this problem. When I was experimenting with unjournalled HFS+ for file transfer between Snow Leopard and Ubuntu, I found it really irritating to have to deal with occasional permission problems. Depending on what specific permissions files are saved with, that may or may not be troublesome. Your UID in Ubuntu will probably be 1000 and in Snow Leopard, iirc, 501. You can format your usb device with the unjournalled version of HFS+ as Lars Noodén describes to get read-write in both Ubuntu and Snow Leopard, but you will still trip over another issue.
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