Note: My suspicion is that the homebrew formulas did not work because homebrew installs osxfuse without the MacFUSE Compatibility Layer. Probably this can be fixed by fiddling with permissions, but I didn't look into it. Mounting as a regular user did not work for me. Sudo mount -t fuse-ext2 /dev/disk0s2 /Volumes/ext4 Mount the partition to an existing mount point: Once you have both OSXFUSE and FUSE-EXT2 installed you can mount the ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions as mentioned in other answers:įind the device name for the EXT partition you want to mount (e.g. Manually download FUSE-EXT2 from and run the PKG installer.IMPORTANT: Once you launch the PKG installer, make sure you selected MacFUSE Compatibility Layer in the wizard (it is not enabled by default) - without it I was getting an error while trying to mount.
But if you want to mount the partition into a system directory then you need to run it as root e.g: sudo mount -t fuse-ext2 /dev/disk1s2 /sys_mount_point It may complain about not being able to write to the log file but it should still mount the partition into your home mount point. Combine the diskX and partition number Y like this /dev/diskXsY - e.g: mount -t fuse-ext2 /dev/disk1s2 ~/my_mount_point This will list all partitions for all disks and amongst them you should see the relevant ones listed under the TYPE column as Linux. when installed using MacPorts port install ext2fuse) - then firstly you need to work out where the Linux partition is: diskutil list
If you're wondering what the command line is to mount an ext4 partition using fuse and ext2fuse (e.g. It is more solid setup than the one I previously described above. I can access the ext4 partition to read and write. Update: As of May 2015, I have formatted my /home to ext4, and I mount the filesystem using fuse-ext2 in combination with FUSE for OS X. However, I don't suggest this setup either (at least that you have an up to date backup for your daily work).įinally, I believe that Paragon is more suitable maybe to use for external hard disks but anyways it is not very reliable for being software which license is expensive. Of course, from time to time I get some problems in my FS but is not very frequent.
So far, I have my /home partition in Linux formatted to hfsplus with no journaling, and then I can access my files from Mac OS X.
My idea was to have access to my /home partition from Mac OS X using this Paragon driver, but I don't suggest to do this setup. I found that the driver was very unstable, and it created corruptions to the filesystem that fsck was not able to repair neither in Linux nor in Disk Utility. Just for the record, I have tested Paragon ExtFS driver (trial version) on my MacBook Pro to write to ext4 partition in Linux.