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#Mount ext4 partition linux with macfuse mac os

Open a terminal (or command prompt) on your machine.If you don’t, get someone who has those rights to do the rest of these steps for you. Make sure you have administrator rights for the machine you want to work on.

If you don’t, visit this page to set it up.

Make sure you have Homebrew installed.

Make sure you have a good internet connection.

If this suits you, here are the steps you need to take to achieve it: I recommend this option because it poses an almost zero risk of corrupting your files or the partitions they are stored in. You can copy your movies, photos etc out of the partition but you cannot delete, rename, cut or add any files/directories. With this option, you can only access the files on your partition, you cannot modify them.

Option 1: Mount the partition as read-only (RO).

When trying to mount an ext2/3/4 partition on your Mac, you have at least two options:

#Mount ext4 partition linux with macfuse mac os

Mounting an ext2/ext3/ext4 partition on Mac OS Nevertheless, here is the best info I found about how you can mount an ext2/ext3/ext4 partition on a Mac. Even the paid solutions I read about were not totally reliable and were known to corrupt people’s storage devices. So I consulted Google for a solution but found that there was no quick, pretty and free software for this. So if the Mac OS can mount the filesystems of Windows (NTFS and FAT32) by default, it should be able to mount the ext filesystem too, right? Wrong. I mean, at its core, Mac OS and Linux both belong to the Unix family of operating systems ( proof) and ext is the default filesystem of Linux. I have been using a MacBook for a while now but was shocked to learn that the Mac OS can’t mount ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems by default.