[olug] ext2/3 mounting

[Matthew Anderson]

Your milage may vary, but when I tried using the ext2fs kernel module  
under 10.3 (I don't know if I tried 10.4 or not -- don't think so) it  
reliably caused a kernel panic and locked up my powerbook with any  
significant use.  I could browse the directory structure, but I  
really couldn't read more than a couple of megabytes of data off of  
the ext2/3 partition before it locked up.  And of course, as  
journaling wasn't supported, the volume was marked unclean each time  
this happened and had to be thoroughly checked when I plugged it back  
into a Linux box.

I eventually decided the easiest thing to do was to get another  
external volume, format it HFS+, and scp the data to it.  And, Macs  
like firewire better than USB anyway.

On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:31 AM, Nathan D. Rotschafer wrote:

> Well there used to be a project that had ext2/3 support as a kernel
> module.  I don't remember the name but I think a google search might
> help.  The last time I looked it was not universal so I stopped
> watching since I have a MBP.
>
> Thanks,
> Nate Rotschafer
>
> P.S.  In case you don't like google.... http://sourceforge.net/
> projects/ext2fsx/
>
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 8:38 AM, Noel Leistad wrote:
>
>> Improper venue, but no answers on gnmug list.....yet.
>>
>> Have external USB2.0 HD formated ext3 that I'd like to mount on a OS
>> 10.4 Powerbook. Anybody got any ideas?
>>
>> Is the only solution to reformat as fstype= darwin UFS??
>>
>> Anything that would work for both Win2K/XP and Mac OX10??
>>
>>
>>
>>
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