Mac OSX guru needed

[Aaron Grewell]

OS X is built on BSD, quite different from Linux.  There is a sourceforge 
project that may help:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/

On Monday 14 April 2003 10:05, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've got a new Ti Powerbook with a triple boot system of Mac OSX, Yellow
> Dog Linux and Gentoo.  Under the normal Mac windows you can't even find the
> linux partitions.  But I'd like to be able to mount them and access the
> files.  Sure, I could reboot into the Linux system, copy the files to the
> Mac partition, then reboot into Mac.  But that kind of thing is not what
> computers are for -- making work harder.
>
> Since OSX is built on top of a linux distro I thought this would be easy,
> just open a terminal, find the partition and mount it.  Not so.  The
> partition software is different (no fsck, only hfsck and ?dfsck?, and
> neither man page is particularly helpful on the partition *types* it will
> deal with) and the partitions are not even named the same.
>
> The Apple lists are *very* quiet on the subject of partitions.
>
> So, does anyone out there have a clue for the clueless about accessing
> linux partitions from within OSX?  Thanks for any help you can give.
>
>
> In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,
>
> Tom  :-})
>
> Thomas A. Condon
> Barbershop Bass Singer
> Registered Linux User #154358
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