Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Getting stuff off a Mac machine

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Saturday, September 05, 2015 12:57:02 AM Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	A friend has a, I thin a few years old - Yosemite, Mac that I need to
> get some large files off. I though Mac's could read NTFS, the files are
> bigger than 4GB hence NTFS over FAT32, hence formatted a spare USB drive
> as NTFS and then plugged it into the machine. No go on the copy. I tried
> a few things then it dawned on me that the Mac probably couldn't write
> to the disk - bummer....

Just mount the NTFS filesystem as rw.

> 	A google search for things led me to the following procedure and was
> wondering if anyone had already done this and could advise.
>
> 1) Format USB via the Mac using HFS+
>
> 2) copy files to disk
>
> 3) Enable HFS+ in the kernel of my machine and rebuild
>
> 4) Boot my machine with the new kernel
>
> 5) Plug USB into my machine and mount
>
> 6) Copy files off to my machine
>
> 7) Format the USB back to something the rest of the world can use ;)
>
> Is that it? I can't do anything with the mac machine, NTFS-3g etc, so I
> have to fit into the Mac world as much as possible. Have I missed
> anything? Any tips or tricks or is there no need as it's that simple?
>
> 	Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
> 		Andrew
>

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Fernando Rodriguez