Mounting EXT3 on OS X?

[Mr Jones]

I'm not sure if I should ask the OS X users or the Linux, I'll try it here first.

Basically, I've set myself a challenge to run Ubuntu for 28 days and it's been 9 days into it and I'm actually quite liking it, till I hit the brick wall with the Firewire Module not loading properly, kept getting kernel panic when I edit the module file. (I needed it to transfer vids from a DV camera, edit it and publish it on my sports club site)

So I had to go back to OSX, edit via iMovie e.t.c. and when I was back, I realise there was no way I can mount my EXT3 partition, googled around and it seem to be an impossible task? (or am I too easily dismayed?)

Anyone can help?
Basically, I want to read (would be nice if I an write too) a EXT3 partition when in OSX (HFS+ Journal).

 

[BillytheImpaler]

This should work: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/
It will read and write it without problem. It only lacks journaling and a few other ext3-only features.

EDIT: Alternatively, you could toy around with using UFS. OS X supports it natively and Ubuntu has read-only support as standard. For full operation you'd have to chrun out a custom kernel with the necessary UFS modules.

sidenote: UFS, the Unix File System, is the native filesystem for most BSD systems. OS X inherits it from NeXT which in turn inherits it from FreeBSD, which in turn inherits it from Version 7 Unix.

 

[Mr Jones]

Thanks Billy, I was under the impression that it's for ext2 only and I've got to mount it via terminal?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Ext3 is just ext2 with journaling bolted on. It will work just fine. I'm not on a Mac at the moment, but based on some descriptions it works with both a GUI and the CLI.