Mounting the Linux Drive in Mac OS X

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Ray:

Ray wrote:
>> (By the way, if you go so far as to try both ext2fsx and Ext2 
>> Filesystem, we would love to have a comparison report on this
>> mailing list!)
> 
> Clint, from what I can see, ext2fsx (Mac OS X Ext 2 Filesystem)
> is the only software for Mac OS X for viewing Ext2 or Ext3
> filesystems. The program seems a bit buggy, howevever, in that
> I cannot override permissions on the volumes. I can edit my
> linux home folder, but that's all that I can change (even with
> permission override on and automount off). Preferences in
> general (besides mounting and unmounting) do not work.
> Otherwise, the software works great!

Thanks for the report! I wonder if the ext2fsx extension would allow me 
to mount a partition from a YDL (or any Linux distro) machine on my Mac 
OS X desktop over a local network? That would be extremely useful.

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>