Mac – Mounting XFS filesystem on Mac

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I would like to know if it is possible to mount an XFS filesystem on a Mac as I want to use XFS on my flash drive.

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Short answer: No.

Long answer: It is not possibly natively. It could however be possible to find a port of the XFS filesystem to FUSE, which would be a hacky solution, but still work. As far as I remember though, there are no projects on porting XFS to OS X.

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Ubuntu – How to mount XFS filesystem in ubuntu

Regarding the output of the fdisk command, I would mount your partition using the following command:

sudo mount -t xfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/stora

The error message you get comes from a typo: the device to your partition is /dev/sdb1 and not /dev/sdb.

Macos – Mount XFS partition on OS X using OSXFUSE

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.

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