How to mount and manage non-native file systems in OS X with FUSE<article>
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Mac OS X supports a handful of common file systems—HFS+, FAT32, and exFAT, with read-only support for NTFS. It can do this because the file systems are supported by the OS X kernel. Formats such as Ext3 for Linux systems are not readable, and NTFS can’t be written to. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t occasions when you’d want to use one of them. With FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) you can.</p><p>
FUSE mimics the kernel’s handling of file systems and allows OS X to both interact with unsupported formats and use many other storage routines, some of which are rather creative. With FUSE, such formats can be handled very similarly to natively supported file systems and allow you to interact with drives your Mac otherwise could not read to or write from. Here’s how you can put FUSE to work.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2855038/how-to-mount-and-manage-non-native-file-systems-in-os-x-with-fuse.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to mount and manage non-native file systems in OS X with FUSE
