[GLLUG] Mount ext2/3 drive on OS X

Richard Houser rick at divinesymphony.net
Thu Aug 9 01:18:36 EDT 2007


Ryan, you should be accessing a partition, not a drive.  You might not 
be accessing the right location.  For example, under Linux a hard drive 
might be /dev/hda or /dev/sda, but partitions would be something like 
/dev/sda1 or /dev/hda5.  Are you able to confirm the drive's filesystem 
is intact using something like a live cd?

Dan Ryan wrote:
> Has anyone tried/succeeded in mounting a ext2 or ext3 formatted drive 
> under OS X?  I have downloaded extfs manager from SourceForge and tried 
> using the utility to mount it, but it keeps telling me I have a bad 
> super block.  What does that mean?  Running e2fsck -b xxxx /dev/drive 
> gives me the same error.  Running mke2fs looked like it was fixing 
> things but that, too, pulled up the same problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
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