Ext4 Mac Support

Ext4 is a linux file system, you would need third party software to use it with macOS so unless you specifically need to use that file system either exFAT or HFS+ (listed as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in disk utility) would be a better option.

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1. The answer depends on you willingness to invest in commercial software: If you don't mind spending some money on a commercial product, Paragon's extFS for Mac will give you read and write access to ext2 / ext3 / ext4 file systems. The current version supports all versions of OS X / macOS.
2. Footnotes: (1) from the man page: The defaults of the parameters for the newly created filesystem, if not overridden by the options listed below, are controlled by the /etc/mke2fs.conf configuration file.
3. No write support since Mac OS X 10.6 and no support at all since macOS 10.15 No? No Apple HFS Plus: No No. What are the (dis)advantages of ext4, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange This page was last edited on 3 February 2021, at.

Disk Utility is a disk utility on macOS operating system. It supports creating, splitting, merging, resizing, deleting and formatting partitions on the hard disk. Disk Utility only supports partition creation and formatting for Mac OS Extended (Journaled), exFAT, MS-DOS (FAT) and since MacOS High Sierra (10.13), it supports APFS.

If you are a Linux user or operating systems other than macOS, you probably use another tool. In another case, if you are using a Seagate, WD My Passport or any other hard drive that you previously partitioned with another tool. Disk Utility will report MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation. This error occurs because the partitions created do not comply with Apple's partition policy. In this case, you can use other tools instead of Disk Utility.

In this article, I will guide you to create a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition with GParted. If you want to install macOS High Sierra or later versions, just use the Convert to APFS feature on Disk Utility.

GParted

1. The answer depends on you willingness to invest in commercial software: If you don't mind spending some money on a commercial product, Paragon's extFS for Mac will give you read and write access to ext2 / ext3 / ext4 file systems. The current version supports all versions of OS X / macOS.
2. Footnotes: (1) from the man page: The defaults of the parameters for the newly created filesystem, if not overridden by the options listed below, are controlled by the /etc/mke2fs.conf configuration file.
3. No write support since Mac OS X 10.6 and no support at all since macOS 10.15 No? No Apple HFS Plus: No No. What are the (dis)advantages of ext4, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange This page was last edited on 3 February 2021, at.

Disk Utility is a disk utility on macOS operating system. It supports creating, splitting, merging, resizing, deleting and formatting partitions on the hard disk. Disk Utility only supports partition creation and formatting for Mac OS Extended (Journaled), exFAT, MS-DOS (FAT) and since MacOS High Sierra (10.13), it supports APFS.

If you are a Linux user or operating systems other than macOS, you probably use another tool. In another case, if you are using a Seagate, WD My Passport or any other hard drive that you previously partitioned with another tool. Disk Utility will report MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation. This error occurs because the partitions created do not comply with Apple's partition policy. In this case, you can use other tools instead of Disk Utility.

In this article, I will guide you to create a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition with GParted. If you want to install macOS High Sierra or later versions, just use the Convert to APFS feature on Disk Utility.

GParted

GParted is a well known disk partitioning program. It supports many partition formats such as FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, Ext4 and of course supports Mac OS Extended. We can use GParted to create Mac OS Extended partitions in just a few simple steps.

GParted comes pre-installed on many Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint… If you already have GParted installed, just use it. If not, you can download GParted or 4MParted ISO files then integrate into AIO Boot. You should use these two operating systems, as they have pre-installed programs that support the format. If you use GParted on Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Debian, you need to install hfsprogs.

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The format of Mac OS Extended is HFS+. There are some commercial softwares that support creating HFS + partitions on Windows, but GParted is free. Now we will create the HFS+ partition with GParted.

1. Run GParted and select the hard disk in the dropdown list at the top right. My hard disk is /dev/sda.
2. You can only create new partitions if your hard disk has unallocated space. Right-click on the unallocated space and select New. You can also format existing partitions to HFS+. Right-click the existing partition, select Format to, and then select hfs+. Or delete the existing partition to recreate it.
3. Select hfs+ in the File system. Then select and enter some information for the other items you want.
4. Click Add, then click Apply to apply the changes.

The Mac OS Extended partition created by GParted will not be journaled. However, we can use Disk Utility to Enable Journaling. Or use the following command to format Mac OS Extended to Mac OS Extended (Journaled):

/dev/sdaX is the partition you want to format.

Convert to APFS

From the MacOS High Sierra version, Apple announced a new file system called APFS. By default, macOS High Sierra can only be installed on an APFS partition. You can use Disk Utility to convert Mac OS Extended partitions to APFS without losing data.

If the Mac OS Extended partition is not Journaled, please journaled it first. Run Disk Utility, select the Mac OS Extended partition in the left column, then select File and select Enable Journaling.

Now you can convert Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partitions to APFS without losing data. Just select Edit and select Convert to APFS…

By using GParted with the simple steps above, we can easily create Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partitions and many other formats that Disk Utility does not support. If you need to create macOS High Sierra bootable USB from Windows, you can try Clover Boot Disk. Good luck!

Windows 10 now allows you to mount physical disks formatted using the Linux ext4 filesystem in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

Linux filesystems, such as ext4, cannot be natively accessed in Windows 10 without installing special drivers.

Starting with Windows 10 preview build 20211, WSL 2 now includes a wsl --mount command that lets you mount ext4 and other Linux kernel supported filesystems, directly in installed WSL distributions.

This feature is especially useful for users who dual-boot Windows 10 and Linux and would like to access their Linux drives while using Windows.

How to mount a disk in WSL 2

Once Windows 10 preview build 20211 is installed, you can use the wsl --mount command to mount a disk in WSL 2.

To mount a drive, you should first open a PowerShell command prompt with Administrative privileges and run the following command to get a list of available drives.

If a disk has a single partition, you can mount it using the command:

Mac os x bootable usb windows. Otherwise, if you wish to mount a particular partition, you would use the commands:

Finally, to unmount a disk from WSL 2, you would use the following commands:

By default, wsl --mount will attempt to mount the partition using ext4. To specify a different filesystem, you can use the following command:

When mounted, the disk will be accessible in a Linux distribution under /wsl/[mountpoint].

More detailed instructions on how to use the wsl --mount command can be found here.

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To illustrate how these commands work, you can see the image below from Microsoft.

To access a mounted filesystem in Windows 10's File Explorer, you can open the Linux category and navigate to /mnt.

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It should be noted that when you mount a disk in WSL 2, it will be available for all WSL 2 Linux distributions that you have installed.

Furthermore, when mounting a partition, the whole disk is mounted and thus will become inaccessible to other applications that may normally use it.

'Also please note that this feature comes with the limitation that only physical disks can be attached to WSL 2. At this time, it's not possible to attach a single partition,' Microsoft notes.

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