This took me longer to find than it should have, so I figure it's worth making a page. The FreeBSD handbook covers mounting Linux partitions, but is apparently outdated, as using their commands gave me errors.

In my case, I just needed to mount a USB drive formatted in Linux. Although RedHat and clones are starting to use XFS as their default, Debian and its clones seem to default to ext4, which is all I'm covering here.

In my case, I was trying to mount a USB that someone had formatted in Linux. The partition I needed was /dev/da0s1.

First one needs the fusefs-ext2fuse packgage. Then kldload the fuse module and lastly, mount the drive with the fuse-ext2 command.

pkg install fusefs-ext2 kldload fusefs fuse-ext2 /dev/da0s1 /mnt

The above requires root privilege. I'm sure it's fairly easy to make it accessible to non-privileged users, but as I need it infrequently, I haven't investigated. This works on ext4 partitions, even though package and command are saying ext2.