I needed to mount an ext3 file system which is on my dual boot mac (I’m doing that to allow parallels to run from “boot camp”). So my idea is to just mount the drive. To do that:
- I installed macfuse, then fuse-ext2 from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-ext2/
Once downloaded and extracted, then
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
mkdir -p /mnt/sda3
fuse-ext2 /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
Segmentation fault
damn, there is a bug in fuse-ext2.c, first line! edit fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c, comment out this (line 324)
And I see there is a MACOSX.build file, so lets do this instead:
sh ./MACOSX.build
then double click on the installer from the finder: fuse-ext2-0.0.7.dmg
cd /mnt/sda3
ls
magic.
Note that it is mounted as ext2 (and ext3 is backward compatible with ext2), and the net effect is that you lose the journal. That sounds bad I hear the non-techies (and some techies) say. Well, the best thing about ext3 is the journal, and what it does is provide a fast way to recover the file system if (and when) it is not shut down cleanly (like power out). The downside of not having the journal is that after an unclean shutdown, it can take a while to go through all the files and make the file system clean again.