Unable to install on M1 about ext4fuse HOT 30 OPEN

so... brew took a lot of steps to place this package in this situation, and looking closer at it i didn't care to try to reverse engineer all that effort

it's not very hard to build this pkg manually, and if you're in the situation where you're on macOS and trying to mount ext4 volumes, it can pretty reasonably be assumed that you're comfortable with the command line

so with that in mind, these are all the steps required to build the pkg and use it
install mac4fuse from https://osxfuse.github.io/, restart

git clone https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse.git && cd "$(basename "$_" .git)"
make
mkdir ~/ext4_mount
diskutil list # shows you a list of all disks connected to your system, choose your ext4 disk/partition
sudo ./ext4fuse /dev/disk4 ~/ext4_mount -o allow_other # sudo is required
# approve all the security prompts, reboot
sudo ./ext4fuse /dev/disk4 ~/ext4_mount -o allow_other # run again after reboot

lsa ~/ext4_mount 
total 40
dr-xr-xr-x  4 1000  1000    4.0K Nov 26 10:49 Saturday Night Live
dr-x------  2 root  wheel    16K Dec 16 08:50 lost+found

# when finished
sudo umount ~/ext4_mount

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due to Homebrew/homebrew-core@ab05068#diff-5b5676e31cbcdb12ec4fc584f8f80f834183d0634835e53b2cea9fdc4fe63d8dR14

i'll try and make my own tap that doesn't have this limit

edit: brew took a lot of steps to deprecate fuse, this is considerably more involved than just commenting out the requirements line: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/64491/files#diff-5b5676e31cbcdb12ec4fc584f8f80f834183d0634835e53b2cea9fdc4fe63d8d

i'll take a closer look next month when my company does open-source fridays (we work on OS projects instead of work projects one day each month)

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Hey all, I managed to solve the input/output error with the fix mentioned at #2 (comment)
(Basically, remove an extra flag and rebuild).
HTH

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@damonbreeden

Hi, I followed your steps but I get this error :
ls: /Users/stephane/2TB: Input/output error

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The code to compile provided by @damonbreeden did not work for me on Ventura 13.5.1 because make failed. I replaced the line
make
with
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig make
and the code compilation then completed.
Unfortunately the software does not work on an external USB drive. As others have reported, ext4fuse does complete the mount operation, but attempts to view directories or files return an I/O error:
MacBook17:ext4fuse wayt$ ls ~/ext4_mount
ls: /Users/wayt/ext4_mount: Input/output error

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I am also experiencing this on a 2017 Intel MacBook Pro running Ventura 13.0.1 (22A400).

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L005649:ext4fuse roysk$ brew install ext4fuse
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json

==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json

ext4fuse: Linux is required for this software.
libfuse@2: Linux is required for this software.
Error: ext4fuse: Unsatisfied requirements failed this build.
L005649:ext4fuse roysk$

So - grabbing the source from github and installed fuse with brew, trying to make

L005649:ext4fuse roysk$ make
Package fuse was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fuse.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'fuse' found
cc  -DFUSE_USE_VERSION=26 -std=gnu99 -g3 -Wall -Wextra -DEXT4FUSE_VERSION=\"v0.1.3-20-g6b23d8d\" -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -c -o fuse-main.o fuse-main.c
fuse-main.c:14:10: fatal error: 'fuse.h' file not found
#include <fuse.h>
         ^~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [fuse-main.o] Error 1
L005649:ext4fuse roysk$

Any idea where I can find that header file and its friends? I thought of fuse-dev or something, but I can't find that with brew.

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The same error for me in Ventura 13.0.1

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I am also having this on Ventura 13.0.1...

It has now become quite hard to work with Raspberry Pi SD cards on a Mac.

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Same on M1 Monterey 12.3.1. MacFuse updated to last 4.4.1 version but it didn't help.

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This is really unfortunate. I hope there will be a fix in the future!

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Buster
My diskutil disk:
/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *64.0 GB disk4
1: Windows_FAT_32 ⁨boot⁩ 268.4 MB disk4s1
2: Linux ⁨⁩ 63.7 GB disk4s2

Mount error: Partition doesn't contain EXT4 filesystem

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@marciano1 I had a similar error:

/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *31.9 GB    disk6
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 boot                    45.2 MB    disk6s1
   2:                      Linux                         31.9 GB    disk6s2

ext4fuse % sudo ./ext4fuse /dev/disk6 ~/ext4_mount -o allow_other
Partition doesn't contain EXT4 filesystem

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yes, you are right, I was going to edit my comment but you were too quick! got a bunch of security warnings (on Ventura 13.2.1) which I'll have to work through then try again

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After all these security messages, about 7 reboots, booting into the Recovery environment and changing settings in Startup Security Utility I got it working!

System Extension Blocked

The system extension required for mounting macFUSE volumes could not be loaded.

Please open the Security & Privacy System Preferences pane, go to the General preferences and allow loading system software from developer "Benjamin Fleischer". A restart might be required before the system extension can be loaded.

Then try mounting the volume again.

To enable system extensions, you need to modify your security settings in the Recovery environment.

To do this, shut down your system. Then press and hold the Touch ID or power button to launch Startup Security Utility. In Startup Security Utility, enable kernel extensions from the Security Policy button.

A program tried to load new system extension(s) signed by “Benjamin Fleischer”. You can enable these extensions in Privacy & Security System Settings.

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How do I trigger these 'security prompts'? I'm able to mount a drive using the instructions @damonbreeden provided and list the contents with sudo ls, but I can only access it using sudo and only certain commands work (e.g. rsync can't see inside even with sudo)

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Sounds like you forgot to use ‘allow_other’ when you mounted

Nope, I used the exact command you provided, except to adjust the name of the drive

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Also getting the input/output error , and i'm using -o allow_other .. confused as heck.. suggestions @damonbreeden ? get the IO error even with trying to browse as root via sudo su

ext4fuse % sudo ./ext4fuse /dev/disk2s2 ~/ext4_mount -o allow_other

Looks like this is also the issue in #75

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@damonbreeden

Hi, I followed your steps but I get this error : ls: /Users/stephane/2TB: Input/output error

@acrylica did you figure out a solution to this ?

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I am also having this on Ventura 13.0.1...

It has now become quite hard to work with Raspberry Pi SD cards on a Mac.

Sorry, my question is a bit out of the topic being discussed here. I always setup my raspberry pi in complete headless mode and for that I need to have write access to the rootfs but unfortunately with ext4fuse I only have read access. Is there any alternative or an option to do this mac?

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The author did mention that

Block numbers over 32 bits aren't supported. You hit those when you reach around the terabyte

I wonder if that's the reason we are hitting Input/output error. I'm running Monterey on an intel chip with a 14T external hard drive.

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so... brew took a lot of steps to place this package in this situation, and looking closer at it i didn't care to try to reverse engineer all that effort

it's not very hard to build this pkg manually, and if you're in the situation where you're on macOS and trying to mount ext4 volumes, it can pretty reasonably be assumed that you're comfortable with the command line

so with that in mind, these are all the steps required to build the pkg and use it install mac4fuse from https://osxfuse.github.io/, restart

git clone https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse.git && cd "$(basename "$_" .git)"
make

This doesn't work on my M1 Mac (running Sonoma)...

cc -o ext4fuse fuse-main.o logging.o extents.o disk.o super.o inode.o dcache.o op_read.o op_readdir.o op_readlink.o op_init.o op_getattr.o op_open.o -L/usr/local/lib -losxfuse
ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/lib/libosxfuse.2.dylib': fat file missing arch 'arm64', file has 'unknown,unknown,i386,x86_64'
ld: Undefined symbols:
  _fuse_main_real, referenced from:
      _main in fuse-main.o
  _fuse_opt_free_args, referenced from:
      _main in fuse-main.o
  _fuse_opt_parse, referenced from:
      _main in fuse-main.o
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [ext4fuse] Error 1

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So - grabbing the source from github and installed fuse with brew, trying to make

L005649:ext4fuse roysk$ make
Package fuse was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fuse.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'fuse' found
cc  -DFUSE_USE_VERSION=26 -std=gnu99 -g3 -Wall -Wextra -DEXT4FUSE_VERSION=\"v0.1.3-20-g6b23d8d\" -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -c -o fuse-main.o fuse-main.c
fuse-main.c:14:10: fatal error: 'fuse.h' file not found
#include <fuse.h>
         ^~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [fuse-main.o] Error 1
L005649:ext4fuse roysk$

Any idea where I can find that header file and its friends? I thought of fuse-dev or something, but I can't find that with brew.

were you able to install the package properly?

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So - grabbing the source from github and installed fuse with brew, trying to make

L005649:ext4fuse roysk$ make
Package fuse was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fuse.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'fuse' found
cc  -DFUSE_USE_VERSION=26 -std=gnu99 -g3 -Wall -Wextra -DEXT4FUSE_VERSION=\"v0.1.3-20-g6b23d8d\" -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -c -o fuse-main.o fuse-main.c
fuse-main.c:14:10: fatal error: 'fuse.h' file not found
#include <fuse.h>
         ^~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [fuse-main.o] Error 1
L005649:ext4fuse roysk$

Any idea where I can find that header file and its friends? I thought of fuse-dev or something, but I can't find that with brew.

were you able to install the package properly?

I found fuse.h using locate in these locations:

> locate fuse.h
/usr/local/include/fuse/fuse.h
/usr/local/include/fuse.h

Guessing they were installed there by macFUSE.

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So - grabbing the source from github and installed fuse with brew, trying to make

L005649:ext4fuse roysk$ make
Package fuse was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fuse.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'fuse' found
cc  -DFUSE_USE_VERSION=26 -std=gnu99 -g3 -Wall -Wextra -DEXT4FUSE_VERSION=\"v0.1.3-20-g6b23d8d\" -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -c -o fuse-main.o fuse-main.c
fuse-main.c:14:10: fatal error: 'fuse.h' file not found
#include <fuse.h>
         ^~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [fuse-main.o] Error 1
L005649:ext4fuse roysk$

Any idea where I can find that header file and its friends? I thought of fuse-dev or something, but I can't find that with brew.

were you able to install the package properly?

so... brew took a lot of steps to place this package in this situation, and looking closer at it i didn't care to try to reverse engineer all that effort
it's not very hard to build this pkg manually, and if you're in the situation where you're on macOS and trying to mount ext4 volumes, it can pretty reasonably be assumed that you're comfortable with the command line
so with that in mind, these are all the steps required to build the pkg and use it install mac4fuse from https://osxfuse.github.io/, restart

git clone https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse.git && cd "$(basename "$_" .git)"
make

This doesn't work on my M1 Mac (running Sonoma)...

cc -o ext4fuse fuse-main.o logging.o extents.o disk.o super.o inode.o dcache.o op_read.o op_readdir.o op_readlink.o op_init.o op_getattr.o op_open.o -L/usr/local/lib -losxfuse
ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/lib/libosxfuse.2.dylib': fat file missing arch 'arm64', file has 'unknown,unknown,i386,x86_64'
ld: Undefined symbols:
  _fuse_main_real, referenced from:
      _main in fuse-main.o
  _fuse_opt_free_args, referenced from:
      _main in fuse-main.o
  _fuse_opt_parse, referenced from:
      _main in fuse-main.o
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [ext4fuse] Error 1

I had to install rosetta to get the compile to go to success:

softwareupdate --install-rosetta

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PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig make

this is not working for me. I've made sure that fuse is all good, but make command or this gives the error Makefile:2: *** You need to install pkg-config in order to compile this sources. Stop.

anyone know fixes? or have i done something wrong?

EDIT: Installed pkg-config through brew. Upon making : ld: open() failed, errno=21 for 'ext4fuse' clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) make: *** [ext4fuse] Error 1

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+1

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