Mount XFS partition on OS X using OSXFUSE

macos filesystems xfs

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Solution 1

As Daniel Beck pointed out, there is Fuse-XFS, which let's you mount XFS under OS X in read-only mode.

From author's website:

Fuse-xfs is a MacFuse (OSXFUSE) driver for XFS filesystems. This driver allows Mac OS 10.7 with OSXFUSE/MacFuse to mount XFS filesystems in read only mode.

The journal is ignored, but basic read only operations should work fine.

This software should be considered alpha, and provides no guarantees that the XFS filesystem remains unaltered (although the code does not support writing in any way). Use of the software is entirely at the users own risk.

Solution 2

Install FUSE for OSX
Connect the HD partitioned with XFS
Run Disk Utility, you should be able to see the mounted device (e.g: disk3)
ls /dev/disk3*, you should be able to see the partition (e.g: disk3s1)
create the mount point (e.g: /mnt/my_xfs_hd)
sudo fuse-xfs /dev/disk3s1 -- /mnt/my_xfs_hd -o default_permissions,allow_other
cd /mnt/my_xfs_hd, you should now have read-only access to all the data stored in the XFS partition

Solution 3

minixfs is a file system for the minix operating system (MINIX-FS), rather than a small implentation for XFS (mini-xfs) :-)

So, look out for FUSE-XFS.

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Milo Wielondek

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Milo Wielondek over 1 year

How can I mount an XFS-partition on OS X 10.7 using OSXFUSE?

In their filesystem repository under filesystems-c/unixfs I have found minixfs. However, I'm not sure how to go about installing it and using it to mount the partition, hence I would be grateful if someone could write a short guide/tutorial. I wasn't able to find any instructions on the topic elsewhere.
- HikeMike almost 12 years
  
  It's not "Mini XFS", it's Minix FS.
- HikeMike almost 12 years
  
  Did you Google for osxfuse xfs and find this on the first page? If so, why doesn't it work for you? If not, why not?
- Milo Wielondek almost 12 years
  
  @DanielBeck D'oh! I don't know how I missed it. Bonus question - is there a way of getting around the write-only mode of fuse-xfs?
- Milo Wielondek almost 12 years
  
  @DanielBeck *read-only. What is up with me today...
- HikeMike almost 12 years
  
  Write operations are not implemented.
Gwyneth Llewelyn almost 5 years

Still works like a charm under macOS Catalina Beta (10.15)!