Access Ext3/Ext2 file system on Mac OSX Lion (10.7)
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Timely! I decided to move my ext2 formatted usb drive (music and video storage) over to my mac to jaikoz today, and you just saved me the research!
Thanks!
Glad it helped.
Well done!! Full support for my linux usb drive in a few clicks
Thanks indeed.
Is a 2TB drive, ext3 formatted (in a Popcorn Hour media player) accessible on my mac?
In other words; is there a limit in drive TB’s to work with OsXFuse
I didn’t purchase the drive yet.
I didn’t find any such limitation, but I suggest that you ask this question at their forum at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/osxfuse-group .
The disk got mounted. But its only read, no write support?
As of now write mode is not that reliable (ref: http://alperakcan.org/?open=projects&project=fuse-ext2).
Wonderfull, it works !!!!
Many thanks to you.
You are welcome.
Hello,
will this solution read ext4 files as well?
Cheers
I haven’t tested but this should.
Yes it worked for me with EXT4!!
Partition was ext4 created by ubuntu 11.04 and read very well on os 10.7.4 lion.
Thanks for the great tutorial!
Thanks.
Dynamite! Thanks.
Thanks, this is great! Most guides are confusing. This one is simple. Nicely done.
Thanks and you are welcome.
It is important to note that if you are running Link Aggregation on your system (Like usinga OSX Server) That install this will disable your link aggregation.
What i did was install, copy, uninstall and my link was back up and data was copied. Now this solution will only work if you dont need the EXT3 drive attached all the time.
works perfectly. thanks!
Thanks, that was easy!
You have any idea if/when writing to ext2/ext3 will be possible? I would like to back-up on Linux.
Sorry I have no information on that. Since you are using Mac, I would suggest using TimeMachine. This is not portable across systems but is easy, intuitive and very good.
No love. Then again I’m using an EXT3 formated partition from a Synology NAS. For reference I’m running OSX 10.7.3.
Thank you very much.
Works fine with 10.7.4 and an EXTFS3 drive, writing to it too!
it all works fine. But writing takes ages, it is not possible to transfer data of 200 GB within reasonable time. In about 6 hours it copied only 1.5 GBs. Did anybody else have similar observations?
Same issue here with fuse-ext2 v0.0.7 under Lion 10.7.4. It is definitely very slow in write mode. Same kind of speed (around 250Mo per hour).
excellent!
Hi,
I have installed the software as described on my MacBook Pro 2010 with Lion. I have connected the hard drive via USB/external controller to the computer but it does not show.
The drive is taken from a broken Netgear ReadyNas NV+ which I am pretty sure uses Ext3.
Any ideas?
Not sure, but I would suggest that you test your drive with a Linux system first. Make sure that it is working.
Hey Erik,
I’m in the same boat. Have you had any luck?
Links provided are not compatible with Mountain Lion.
Worked like a charm on Mountain Lion 10.8.2. Thanks!!
Thanks! Chris
Thanks man,
Works like a clock on 10.7.5. I had to revive my otherwise dead NAS MyBookLive 2T. I took it out of the case and stuck in my Mac so the next problem was to read it and your stuff was really handy. Appreciate.
Best regards
fuse-ext2 works but is very slow (I get some 7 MB/s reading and 1 MB/s writing via USB 2.0).
If you have the choice, better use Apple’s HFS+ on the external drive, which is much faster (I get some 30 MB/s both reading and writing, both on Mac and Linux).
HFS+ is supported by Linux mostly out-of-the-box. To get write access even to a journaled partition on Ubuntu, install support via `sudo apt-get install hfsprogs` and when the drive is mounted (e.g., automatically), re-mount it writable using `sudo -o remount,force,rw /mount/point`
Thanks for sharing this.
Oops, correction: the mount command is of course
sudo mount -o remount,force,rw /mount/point
BTW, recently I suffered from a system crash apparently due to fuse-ext2
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-ext2/forums/forum/787602/topic/6549364
Thanks, great post…
… Do you know how to mount the second partition? /boot mounts automatically but I can’t mount the main partition…
I’ve tried two old drives.. same problem?
Thanks!
J.
thumbs up men…
It works!
Thanks a lot, you saved me a lot of time!
Jacobo
Still works!
Thank you, it works on ML