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I've been considering getting an Intel iBook when they come out, and I know you own atleast a couple Macs, including a Powerbook. I was wondering if it's possible to read and write to an external hard drive formatted as Ext3 from within OS X. Ideally, I'd like to dual-boot Linux and OS X on the iBook, but if I can't access my data on the externel drive there's not much point in getting a Mac.

Update*

I found this, but it doesn't appear to support Tiger. Damnit.

This should get you going: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ . I used it to access my ext3 partitions. But then I went and made my home partition Reiserfs, and there is no support for that under OS X yet.

Becareful with this utility, though. I would not suggest having the partition automount whenever you log in to OS X. I did this for a while and when I had a lockup on OS X that required a hard reset it did some funky thing to the partition and caused problems booting OS X. The partition would not mount and this prevented OS X from booting. I had to boot Linux for it to run the disk check on the partition and then all was ok.

Does this work with the latest OS X? Someone said that it only works with 10.2 and 10.3.