David
I’ve copied 40MB in 40 seconds… am trying to copy 5GB from my phone right now and it gives me an estimated time of 2 hrs. I should really have got out my old laptop which runs red hat 9 or something, but it might take 2 hrs to move all the stuff

If you can’t mount a usb external disk on mac os because the disk has an alien partition type use this procedure to mount it in mac:

1- mount the disk in linux
2- change its partition type to HPSF/NTFS with fdisk:

sudo fdisk /dev/sdb1

type ‘t’ followed by ‘enter’

if fdisk ask about which partition to change choose partition number ‘1′ always.

then type ‘7′ followed by ‘enter’ then type ‘w’ followed by ‘enter.

3- check the success of changing partition type with:
fdisk -l /dev/sdb1
The output should list the partitions as well as their types.

4- unmount the disk in linux.

5- Attache the disk to mac os and note the device id with diskutils

6- Ensure that the disk is unmount and ejected

7- Create mounting directory:

mkdir /Volumes/usb

8- Mount the disk with:

sudo mount -ar -t ntfs /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/usb

The ‘r’ parameter means ‘read only’

If you get no error after this command, then your fine and check your disk in finder.

While I got my ext3 drive to mount under Snow Leopard, and I can access all the files, I do not have write access, even though I used the “-o force” option:

$ sudo ./fuse-ext2 /dev/disk1 /Volumes/Archive0 -o force
Password:
fuse-ext2: version:’0.0.7′, fuse_version:’27′ [main (../../fuse-ext2/
fuse-ext2.c:324)]
fuse-ext2: enter [do_probe (../../fuse-ext2/do_probe.c:30)]
fuse-ext2: leave [do_probe (../../fuse-ext2/do_probe.c:55)]
fuse-ext2: opts.device: /dev/disk1 [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:
351)]
fuse-ext2: opts.mnt_point: /Volumes/Archive0 [main (../../fuse-ext2/
fuse-ext2.c:352)]
fuse-ext2: opts.volname: Archive0 [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:
353)]
fuse-ext2: opts.options: force [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:
354)]
fuse-ext2: parsed_options:
force,allow_other,local,noappledouble,fsname=/dev/
disk1,fstypename=ext2,volname=Archive0 [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-
ext2.c:355)]
fuse-ext2: mounting read-write [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:
369)]

But when I try to write:

$ touch /Volumes/Archive0/x
touch: /Volumes/Archive0/x: Read-only file system

How can I solve this?

$ mkdir /Volumes/temp
$ fuse-ext2 /dev/disk1 /Volumes/temp/
fuse-ext2: version:’0.0.7′, fuse_version:’27′ [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:324)]
fuse-ext2: enter [do_probe (../../fuse-ext2/do_probe.c:30)]
fuse-ext2: Error while trying to open /dev/disk1 (rc=16) [do_probe (../../fuse-ext2/do_probe.c:34)]
fuse-ext2: Probe failed [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:340)]

The error message is exactly the same if I used one of the partition /dev/disk1s1

Any idea?

Thanks,
Phil

I try to install fuse-ext2 on a MacOSX 10.6.6.

when I try to

$ make

the bundle I get the following error.

$ error: There is no SDK with the name or path ‘macosx10.4′

I guess I have a newer version of SDK somewhere, but I am not sure. For sure I have Xcode.

Any idea what to change, that the installer also checks for other versions of SDK?

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Best regards

eisen

What am i doing wrong having this error:

failed to mount /private/tmp/usbhd@/dev/fuse1: Socket is not connected

before i had:

MacFUSE already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port macfuse. Use ‘port -f activate macfuse’ to force the activation.

i did it and then i installed with port install ext2fuse

But trying to mount an ext3 hd i get this error.