Mount extfs disk on MacOS

[AnalogJ]

https://openwebcraft.com/how-to-mount-an-ext4-linux-usb-drive-on-macos-in-2024/
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/mounting-ext4-linux-usb-drive-on-macos-2024

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How hard can it be, right? 🧐

Well… coming from years of daily driving Linux I first had to remember: it's probably not as straight fwd. as it should be—at least IMO.

I rather quickly stumbled on this great post from Jeff:
Mounting an ext4 linux USB drive on macOS in 2024 —such a great title 😉

I skipped Jeff's approach (macfuse), and went straight for the approach outlined in the comments—to go w/ macos-fuse-t:

brew install pkg-config
brew tap macos-fuse-t/homebrew-cask
brew install fuse-t

git clone https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/ext4fuse.git && cd "$(basename "$_" .git)"

locate fuse.h
ls "/Library/Application Support/fuse-t/include/fuse/fuse.h"

# vi Makefile 
CFLAGS  += $(shell pkg-config fuse-t --cflags) -DFUSE_USE_VERSION=26 -std=gnu99 -g3 -Wall -Wextra
CFLAGS  += -DEXT4FUSE_VERSION=\"$(VERSION)\"
CFLAGS  += -I"/Library/Application Support/fuse-t/include/fuse"

In a new terminal run

make

diskutil list

mkdir ~/ext4_mount
sudo ./ext4fuse /dev/disk6s1 ~/ext4_mount -o allow_other