---
title: Mountint Ext4 Filesystem On MacOS Readonly
summary: An overview of how to mount your Pi-Star sdcard on a mac machine.
categories: [computerstuff]
tags: [pistar,macos]
date: 2020-02-22T09:33:44+01:00

---

##### Installing the needed tools

~~~console
$ brew cask install osxfuse
$ brew install ext4fuse
~~~

##### Mount the disk on your filesystem

~~~console
$ ext4fuse /dev/disk2s2 pi-star
~~~

##### Users, groups, write permissions, &c

If you feel that you have to add yourself to another usergroup, then do that
as the following code suggests:

~~~console
$ sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a $username -t user $groupname
~~~