Mounting HFS+ partitions in YDL

Clinton MacDonald yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:38:52 -0500


Bill:

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 11:23  AM, Longman, Bill wrote:
> Richard, I thought someone on the list just mentioned that there's an 
> ext2
> plugin for OSX.

Yes, Edith Frost has done the experiment (in a thread called "Re: how 
to format my external drive?"):

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 11:16  AM, Edith Frost wrote:
>>>> [...] you can play with the beta extension for Mac OS X that allows 
>>>> mounting of the ext2 (Linux) filesystem:
>>>>
>>>> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/>
>
> Well, I just tried it and it works like magic!!!!! I installed it and 
> rebooted to OSX, and when it came back up it not only mounted my 
> external drive, but my Linux partition as well. I could browse the 
> MP3s and drag them to the OSX desktop with no problem. I didn't want 
> to risk writing to the disk from there so I haven't tried that, but 
> I'm so pleased to be able to read the drive from OSX without any 
> monkey business. Yippeeee!!!

Best wishes,
Clint

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