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kaosfere
Nov 1, 2003, 11:36 PM
Hi, all. Forgive the n00b question here. I'm a soon-to-be switcher (*knock on wood*) and trying to plan how I'm going to migrate a bunch of data from my old Linux box to a new PowerBook. I'm thinking of buying an external drive case for my IDE drive, slurping everything off of there, then reformatting it to use as a backup drive.

Which brings up my question. I've searched and I can't for the life of my figure out whether or not OS X will mount an ext3 file system. Anyone know? I can't see why it wouldn't, given the FreeBSD core, but who knows.


bousozoku
Nov 2, 2003, 12:37 AM
I don't see that listed as one of the possible file systems to mount; however, I believe that there's a project to port ext3 to Mac OS X.

You can check the available file systems under /System/Library/Filesystems
FattyMembrane
Nov 2, 2003, 11:39 AM
this (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18619) allows you to create and read ext2 filesystems (and ext3 i believe, but without journaling). give it a try.
kaosfere
Nov 3, 2003, 12:44 PM
Thanks for the info, guys!
daveL
Nov 3, 2003, 01:23 PM
You could always set up NFS between the two machines. You'd need a network, of course.
Fuz2y
Apr 13, 2008, 09:52 AM
I have achieved a method that works great to mount ext3 partitions on OS X Startup ;)

http://fuz2y.com/?p=1

Enjoy ツ
enfolder
Jun 24, 2008, 03:55 PM
I'm running 10.5.3 on a MacBook Pro. I have ExtFSManager installed, but I don't seem to have mount_ext2 as a command line option:

> mount_ext2
bash: mount_ext2: command not found

Any ideas? I don't want to mount this disk at startup, just occasionally. I get an error when I use the GUI.
Fuz2y
Jun 25, 2008, 06:23 AM
i forgot to mention this, maybe this is what is missing

install Mac Fuse - http://macfuse.googlecode.com/files/MacFUSE-Core-10.5-1.5.1.dmg

ツ
enfolder
Jun 28, 2008, 12:46 PM
I'm still trying to understand how to use the mount_ext2 command. I have installed MacFUSE and rebooted. Now what? I do not have the mount_ext2 command anywhere in my path. Spotlight can't find it.

Do I need to do something to start MacFUSE? Can you tell me where the mount_ext2 command lives so I can add it to my path?
Mikey7c8
Sep 15, 2009, 05:48 PM
use fuse-ext2 instead of ext2 / 3 / whatever

all the mount commands are /sbin/mount_*

ie

sudo mount -t fuse-ext2 /dev/disk1s1 /tmp/ex