Mounting the Linux Drive in Mac OS X

[Derick Centeno]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 01:42, Derick Centeno wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 00:16, Raymond Halbert wrote:
> > I was very easily abel to mount the Mac OS X hard drive in Linux, but I 
> > am having trouble doing the opposite. I. e., I want o mount the Linux 
> > partition in Mac OS X, but I cannot figure out how. I know that the YDL 
> > partition is /dev/disk0s4, but my mac won't let me mount it. Is there a 
> > way that I could force it to mount? (I have tried sudo and root.)
> > 
> > After that is done, is the procedure for mounting the drive on reboot 
> > that much different from what I did for Linux? (fstab file editing 
> > procedure)
> 
> This is an interesting question.
> 
> You should realize that this issue is really one of what the MacOS can
> see as a recognized partition for it to mount on it's desktop.  As far
> as I'm aware, there is nothing in how Linux is designed to enable that
> to happen.  Remember that Linux was made to run on x86 systems and act
> as though it was a Unix OS.  YDL is an implementation of that running on
> PowerPC systems.
> 
> The most you might be able to do is to have Darwin (the Unix/Open Source
> portion of MacOS X) see the Linux drive or partition using pdisk.  I've
> been told by others who are regulars on this list that Darwin has
> everything Linux/YDL has...so from their input, I'm assuming Darwin has
> pdisk too.
> 
> Within Darwin, using the Terminal within OS X you should be able to do 
> 
> $ whereis pdisk
> 
> Then from there, whereever it tells you it is go to that directory,
> you'll probably have to be in superuser.  So:
> 
> # ./pdisk -l
> 
> The above would in Linux cause pdisk to list all the partitions it sees.
> Note where it lists the mount points for the Linux partition and then
> you should be able to create a directory within Darwin.  Create a name
> for the Linux partition, and you are then one step away of mounting it
> into Darwin.  The problem will be just what options within the mount
> command available in Darwin will allow you to mount a Linux drive into
> it's directory structure.  You may be lucky enough to find an
> explanation within man or info, that is do
> 
> man mount 
> info mount
> 
> and see what options come up.  The solution could be as simple as:
> 
> #mount -t ext3 /dev/disk0s4 /mnt/myydl
> 
> I'm not sure, but I do know that if you choose the name myydl or
> anything else you'll have to use mkdir first to create it before you use
> mount in the way I suggested.
> 
> I don't expect OS X to mount the Linux partition as a drive on the
> desktop, but if it does there's more to the OS X as a Unix system than
> most know!
> 
> That's as far as I can intuit.
> 
> Best wishes...
> 
Addendum:

I'm not sure how you determined /dev/disk0s4, but pdisk within Darwin
may say differently.  You will have to use whatever device location and
mount point pdisk utilizes or identifies the Linux drive as.

Best wishes...