How do I mount ext2/ext3 partitions in Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

Question

Is there anything that will natively allow read/write on an ext2/3 partition within Snowie?

Just don't want to get a Linux box to mount, and then access via samba. Although I could perhaps through VMware Fusion … and then share it back…

Anyway to do this natively?

Answer 1

I haven't tried it, but MacFUSE plus fuse-ext2 is supposed to work.

Answer 2

I find the easiest and most reliable way to access linux ext3 partitions on my mac is to run Ubuntu in a vmware virtual machine on the mac. Once running you can connect Ubuntu to the ext3 drive via usb, and this way you can get complete reliability reading and writing to ext3 file systems. It's fast because the disk is directly connected to the mac, unlike on a network. And you can use it to copy files very quickly to/from the mac host by using shared directories or any number of other ways.

Answer 3

Just confirming that fuse-ext2 does indeed work for native reading/writing of ext2/3 partitions on SL 10.6.2.

Answer 4

You could also install either e2fsprogs or ext2fuse with macports.

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Don't think any mount commands are included with port's e2fsprogs. (Though there's fsck and the like.) But installing ext2fuse does do the trick!