Bug 21391 – ppc faq: add info on mounting ext2 under mol

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) 2003-05-21 02:33:13 UTC]

there is now alpha support for mounting ext2 partitions in mac os x. if this
works under mac-on-linux, we should suggest it to users. info at
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/>.

[Comment 1 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) 2003-05-21 13:26:03 UTC]

mol does not access the hard disk over the OS X controller.  It is more like a simulation and mol accepts only HFS, HFS+ and UFS filesystems on startup.  Maybe with a walk into the sources this could be changed...

[Comment 2 Marc Doughty 2003-07-01 11:32:49 UTC]

shouldnt this work if you feed an entire partition to MOL, and install ext2fsx? I thought you could configure MOL to use, say, /dev/hda4 (an hfs part.) as a disk, couldn't you also have it use /dev/hda5 (un-mounted ext2) if you had this software package installed?

[Comment 3 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2005-01-27 15:26:22 UTC]

What if we provided instructions for reading ext2/ext3 from OSX in the PPC FAQ?  Something like:

Can I access my ext2/ext3 partitions from OSX?
OSX can support the reading and writing of ext2/ext3 partitions by using the kernel extension provided here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx

This would cover both native OSX and running under MOL by giving interested parties enough information to figure out how to do it on their own.

[Comment 4 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2005-03-05 23:53:00 UTC]

Okay, I've added that to the FAQ.  I think we can close this now.