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OS X mounts ext3?

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kaosfere

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Nov 1, 2003
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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.
 
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
 
You could always set up NFS between the two machines. You'd need a network, of course.
 
OS 10.5.3 mounts ext3 (Journaled)?

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.
 
MacFUSE?

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?
 
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