As the title says this article will have sequels preferring Mac Os x tips and tricks and some little facts. First of all let us see how to create an .iso image in mac using Terminal.app. You can create .iso image of files and folders.

Creating .iso Image File:

1. Goto Machintosh HD>Users>Application>Utilities>Terminal.app, double-click to open, the application will appear on your dock, bouncing.

2. Consider you have a folder named hpboddunan and its in your Desktop, first of all direct the Terminal command line to your desktop, to do that simply type "cd /Users/Boddunan/Desktop"

3. Now your Terminal command line will look like this: Boddunan:~ boddunan$

4. Type the following hard disk utility command :

Boddunan:~ boddunan$ hdiutil makehybrid -o hpboddunan.iso hpboddunan

5. Now your required .iso image of the folder hpboddunan is created on your desktop now you can mount the image using Disk Utility application located in your Utilities folder or simply double-click the file.

Mounting And Unmounting Volumes:

Consider you've a mac os and windows os for some reasons you wanna unmount the windows os Volume from your mac os, here is how we do it:

As on my system, to Unmount:

Anand:~ anand$ diskutil umount /dev/disk0s3
Volume /dev/disk0s3 Unmounted
Anand:~ anand$

disk0s3 means your windows os volume partition, by default your mac partition is disk0s2 and other partitions have next order like windows has disk0s3 in my system.

To Mount Again:

Anand:~ anand$ diskutil mount /dev/disk0s3
Volume /dev/disk0s3 mounted
Anand:~ anand$

That's all about mounting and unmounting.

How To Make Your Mac Read/Write a NTFS partition Disk:

NTFS means New Technology File System, well you have to google NTFS for more info as I'm not such a good expert in that, sorry!. Recently i found out that my windows partition is  NTFS which means as a mac user working from Mac Os you cannot Write a file to your windows Partition but you can read, only. So i tried out some solutions the best solution i found was a software that would make you read/write to your windows NTFS partition, the software is:

1. Paragon NTFS

2.Google for Paragon NTFS download and install

3. Restart your system.

4. Now your windows partition may seem unmounted so use terminal command to re-mount your windows NTFS partition.

5. Now you can both read/write your windows NTFS partition.

6. One extra-benefit is that you can not only read/write Windows NTFS partition but any external NTFS formatted Hard Disk.

This is a really good tip.

• Written by R.Rajkumar.
• In category Hardware & Troubleshooting.
• 14 years ago.

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