---
title: Accessing ext4 volumes on Mac OS X
date: 2010-11-12
description: Guía para habilitar soporte de volúmenes ext2/ext3/ext4 en Mac OS X usando MacFuse y fuse-ext2.
tags:
- macos
- ext4
- macfuse
- filesystems
extra:
  deprecated_reason: MacFuse fue descontinuado en 2009 y Mac OS X 10.4 ya no se mantiene
  deprecated: true
---

Due to some hardware issues with my laptop PC, I'm temporarily moving from
Ubuntu to Mac OS X. But first, I need to move all my files to this Mac
machine. For different reasons I don't want USB external drives with NTFS, so
I formatted my external drive as ext4. This is a small HOW-TO for enabling
ext2/ext3/ext4 drives on your Mac.

**Note:** I did this on a G5 with Mac OS X v10.4.11.

### Step 1

Install MacFuse from <http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/>

### Step 2

Install <http://alperakcan.org/?open=projects&project=fuse-ext2>

### Step 3

Enjoy.