Fuse OS X on my Mac. Why?

[Francis Morelli]

Hi guys.

I just realized that I have Fuse OS X installed on my Mac, but I don't remember why and when I installed that. I think it's because it was necessary in order to install other application. Is there any way to check which application is using Fuse OS X?

Sorry about my english.

Thanks.

[Sam Moffatt]

In the past these applications would automatically install MacFUSE (a
predecessor to OSXFUSE):
- NTFS-3G / Tuxera NTFS for Mac (driver for the Windows filesystem NTFS)
- fuse-ext2 (driver for the Linux filesystem Ext2)
- VMware Fusion (for accessing virtual disks)
- Parallels Desktop (the same as above, I think)
- MacFusion
- ExpanDrive
- sshfs

It's possible that updated versions of many of these tools use OSXFUSE
(or Fuse4X, I noticed Connected Data's Transporter uses FUSE4X).

Potentially the easiest way is to on the command use the "mount"
command to see if there is anything that uses a filesystem with FUSE
in it's name and work backwards:

For example Connected Desktop on my machine has this:
Connected Desktop@fuse0 on /Users/pasamio/Connected Data (fuse4x,
nodev, nosuid, synchronous, mounted by pasamio)


Cheers,

Sam Moffatt
http://pasamio.id.au

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[Francis Morelli]

Hi Samuel. Thanks for your answer.

I have Tuxera NTFS for Mac installed. So, is that the reason I a have Fuse OS X?

Why is it necessary to have Tuxera working?

Btw, I'm not good in using Terminal lol.

Cheers.

[Francis Morelli]

And I have also VMware Fusion.

thanks!

On Saturday, March 23, 2013 3:33:26 PM UTC-3, Samuel Moffatt wrote:

[Sam Moffatt]

Either of them are candidates to have installed OSXFUSE, OSXFUSE is a
library for writing filesystems which many systems use to provide
custom filesystems (NTFS in Tuxera's case, I'm not quite sure what
Fusion does (or did) with it - virtual disk mounting or similar).

Cheers,

Sam Moffatt
http://pasamio.id.au

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Francis Morelli

[Francis Morelli]

Ok! I got it.

Many thanks.

Cheers!

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[David Greenwell]

I have Fuse for OS X as well as MacFUSE. As far as I'm aware they offer similar functionality (i.e. the ability to read and write to NTFS volumes on a Mac). Does one make the other redundant? If so, which should I uninstall?

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks

David G

[Sam Moffatt]

If you didn't install it then something else did and may have different apps that may be depending upon both. That is to say one app uses MacFUSE and another app uses FUSE4OSX. And you're posting on the OSXFUSE mailing list

I suggest looking at mount on the command line and seeing which file system type shows up. That might give you an idea of what is being used right now but it won't tell you if an app is dependent upon one library or the other. You could try uninstalling one (probably MacFUSE first since it's the oldest) and seeing what breaks :) but I would probably leave them alone. 

Cheers,

Sam

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[gKreme]

Do you have a Transporter? I think it uses fuse to mount its Transpoter Folder. 

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