OSX driver to read EXT3 filesystems?

Hate · 18 Jan 2007 at 00:14

Planning to hook up an external USB hard drive to a mac mini when I get round to buying one. The drive has to be accessable from windows (bootcamp) and osx.

FAT32 is horrible, so lets ignore that one

EXT3 you can easily get drivers for windows, is it possible in macos?

Either that or can you get hold of free HFS+ drivers for windows?

leezer3 · 18 Jan 2007 at 00:48

Free HFS+ drivers for Windows is a no. Your only option here is MacDrive ($50), and this actually works properly.
Free wise, EXT3 in OSX is possible, but a right pain in the rear. This is the Sourceforge page in question- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/
You'll want the latest development version & plenty of command line experience to really consider doing it this way.
A port of the FUSE filesystem drivers (NTFS) is available here http://osx.iusethis.com/app/macfuse , but again is going to be somewhat of a pain in the rear to use.

-Leezer-

Hate · 18 Jan 2007 at 01:12

command line doesn't bother me, i'm a linux sysadmin

leezer3 · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:35

/Faints- OSX user prepared to use the command line properly

Either of those should do you fine then, but be prepared for some kernel panics from them, as they're not 100% stable. I'd also follow a decent backup regieme for the same reasons.

-Leezer-

Hate · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:38

might just use fat32 i guess, and keep any 4gb+ files (should I actually get any) on the internal drive.

I <3 command line, I hate the people who call themselves administrators and have never even typed "ls" before.