When trying to mount an ext2/3/4 partition on your Mac, you have at least two options: Mounting an ext2/ext3/ext4 partition on Mac OS Nevertheless, here is the best info I found about how you can mount an ext2/ext3/ext4 partition on a Mac.
Even the paid solutions I read about were not totally reliable and were known to corrupt people’s storage devices. So I consulted Google for a solution but found that there was no quick, pretty and free software for this. So if the Mac OS can mount the filesystems of Windows (NTFS and FAT32) by default, it should be able to mount the ext filesystem too, right? Wrong. I mean, at its core, Mac OS and Linux both belong to the Unix family of operating systems ( proof) and ext is the default filesystem of Linux. I have been using a MacBook for a while now but was shocked to learn that the Mac OS can’t mount ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems by default.
