No Luck With ext2fsx
I should share that I did not have luck using ext2fsx (ext2 support for MacOSX) to read my drive formatted (as ext3) by my Linksys NSLU2. However, other people report success using this utility for this purpose (see batbox.org on 10-Jul-2004), so I may have been hasty. In the “I just want it to work” mentality into which I’m growing, I gave up and plugged the old drive and new drive into the NSLU2 and let it do the synchronization. The old drive lasted long enough to get its contents copied off, but the noise was teeth grating.
I have left the extension installed on my laptop and have not suffered any instability or problems as a result. And I like the idea of being able to read Linux partitions from my laptop in a crunch.
