[GLLUG] Mount ext2/3 drive on OS X

[Karl Schuttler]

I second richard...many times I have gotten the same error for not
specifying partition numbers.

On 8/9/07, Richard Houser <rick at divinesymphony.net> wrote:
> 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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