how to write on a ext3 disk

[Mario Abbiate]

Hello,
I just installed osxfuse on my mac. I can finally access all my ext3 disks but they get auto mounted as read only.
How can I mount them read and write.
Thanks
Mario

[Benjamin Fleischer]

Hi Mario,

Am 29.01.2012 um 09:56 schrieb Mario Abbiate:

I just installed osxfuse on my mac. I can finally access all my ext3 disks but they get auto mounted as read only.
How can I mount them read and write.

Basically you need OSXFUSE and fuse-ext2. OSXFUSE has to be installed with the "MacFUSE compatibility layer" option checked. fuse-ext2 can be obtained from [1]. Since your ext3 disks already get auto-mounted you seem to be ok on this front.

fuse-ext2 comes with write support, but it is disabled by default. The README file states:

there are no known bugs for read-only mode, read only mode should be ok for every one.

altough, write support is available (and it is pretty stable) please do not mount your

filesystems with write support unless you do not have anything to loose.

To enable fuse-ext2 write functionality run the following command in Terminal (one line). You will be asked to enter your admin password.

sudo sed -e 's/OPTIONS="auto_xattr,defer_permissions"/OPTIONS="auto_xattr,defer_permissions,rw+"/' -i .orig /System/Library/Filesystems/fuse-ext2.fs/fuse-ext2.util

To restore the default read-only behavior run (one line):

sudo mv /System/Library/Filesystems/fuse-ext2.fs/fuse-ext2.util.orig /System/Library/Filesystems/fuse-ext2.fs/fuse-ext2.util

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-ext2/files/fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2-0.0.7/fuse-ext2-0.0.7.dmg/download

Regards,

Benjamin

[Aki Hoji]

Hi Ben, 

I tried this trick to auto-mount an external Ext3 disk but I have not been able to automount the volume.  The disk is listed as disk2 and has a mnt  point in /Volume but I see the only .autodiskmounted in the volume mounted.  I get the following in a syslog:

kernel[0]: OSXFUSE: force ejecting (no response from user space 5)

kernel[0]: OSXFUSE: user-space initialization failed (57)

Any help on this ? 

Thanks. 

Aki

ProductName: Mac OS X

ProductVersion: 10.8.4

BuildVersion: 12E55

[Benjamin Fleischer]

Hi Aki,

It seems the fuse-ext2 user space daemon has died unexpectedly or did not responds to file system requests in a timely fashion. What happens if you mount the volume manually?

Regards,

Benjamin

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[Aki Hoji]

Hi Ben, 

So, I mounted the drive with read-only automount,  unmounted and did sudo fuse-ext2 -o force /dev/disk2 /Volumes/Lacie as follows;

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/disk2 [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:351)]

fuse-ext2: opts.mnt_point: /Volumes/Lacie [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:352)]

fuse-ext2: opts.volname: Lacie [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/disk2,fstypename=ext2,volname=Lacie [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:355)]

fuse-ext2: mounting read-write [main (../../fuse-ext2/fuse-ext2.c:369)]

At the moment, I thought it was working but then 20 or so seconds later, I got this;

mount_osxfusefs: failed to mount /Volumes/Lacie@/dev/osxfuse0: Socket is not connected

In syslog;

kernel[0]: OSXFUSE: force ejecting (no response from user space 5)

kernel[0]: OSXFUSE: user-space initialization failed (57)

As suggested, fuse can't seem to establish a dev socket to mount the disk and it gets a timeout .  I attached the sampling result of ext-fuse2 if it helps.  

Aki   

[Erich Foster]

I am having the exact same issue on OS X 10.7.5 with OSXFUSE 2.6.1 and fuse-ext2 0.0.7

[Benjamin Fleischer]

You might want to post this issue in the fuse-ext2 forum https://sourceforge.net/p/fuse-ext2/discussion/. In my opinion there is nothing, that can be done from the osxfuse end to fix this.

kernel[0]: OSXFUSE: force ejecting (no response from user space 5)

kernel[0]: OSXFUSE: user-space initialization failed (57)

This means fuse-ext2 did not respond to the FUSE_INIT request.

Regards,

Benjamin