Macbooks M*: NTFS Drives and Security Parameters

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Macbooks M*: NTFS Drives and Security Parameters - Lemmy.World

Hello everyone, Sorry if this was previously discussed. I searched through the web and could not find a clear solution / conclusion (all too generic). When I had an intel mac, I was able to use 3rd party apps to read, write and format NTFS drives. Right now, I cannot do so without disabling security features, since Apple Silicon macs no longer allow the use of kext kernel extensions the same way as before. I checked FUSE stuff but it seems unstable. Every 3rd party app I tried has the same issue. Isn’t there ANY other software, program, etc that allows read/write in NTFS drives without disabling security parameters (on the boot menus)? If it is not possible, it looks like a shortcoming for those that use more than 1 OS… I have backups in NTFS drives since I also use linux. Any idea? Kind of bummed with this… I need to export a lot of stuff and FAT* filesystem formats do not meet the requirements as well (due to max file size). Thank you in advance!!! JS

I’m a bit confused why you’re using NTFS on Linux, as there are a multitude of alternative options on file systems for Linux.

Nevertheless. You could try one of the following:

  • Try using a virtual Windows environment such als Parallels or VirtualBox or qemu to boot up a Windows installation and copy/edit your files from there.
  • If the requirement for NTFS is not mission critical, reformat your drives to exFAT, which is very well supported across Linux, Windos, macOS, and iOS/iPadOS. It should meet all your requirements
  • My apologies, I didn’t make it very clear:

    • external drives are NTFS
    • for linux using EXT4
    • basically, NTFS in some external drives because I interact with linux, macos and windows!

    For what I recall, exFAT has a limit of 4GB per file correct?

    FAT32 has a file size limit of 4 gigs, exFAT was created to get around those file system limits of FAT32 and be a reasonable file system.

    exFAT is my go to for any external drive now that it’s actually open and fully supported by Windows, MacOS, and Linux.