OS X cannot natively read the popular Ext2 and Ext3 filesystems, though support for these filesystems can be implemented if needed. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

I had formatted another server as ext3, but as some applications wouldt run on those, I used to change the entries in /etc/fstab and reboot to boot into that filesystem at will.<BR>Now I guess Its ...

I just blew up my quick-backup drive and have to reformat. Is there any reason to use Ext2 over Ext3 on RH9? It was Ext2, and got a bad superblock (was writing a large file, and the server ...

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 ...

If you've been running Linux for a while, you're probably using the now slightly-outdated EXT2 or EXT3 file system. Technology blog Ghacks has a guide to converting those formats to the newer, faster, ...

A few days ago I wrote an article about how the ChromeOS developers decided to remove support for the ext file systems (ext2, ext3 and ext4) from the ChromeOS file browsers. I made it pretty clear in ...