Mounting the Linux Drive in Mac OS X

[Chris Tou]

I found this awhile ago:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11657

It's a preference pane for OS X that mounts the linux partitions. If 
you select the "Ignore Permissions" option, you should be able to write 
to it and everything.


On Jan 17, 2005, at 12:49 AM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> 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...
>
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