Possible to mount an ext4 partition image via FUSE?

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Published on 2012-06-28T19:20:51Z Indexed on 2012/06/28 21:18 UTC
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I'm attempting to mount an ext4 partition image in userspace. (no sudo, no special config/permissions modification to /dev/loop0 or /etc/fstab etc). So I'm hoping FUSE will come to the rescue.

However it seems that each file system mounted through the FUSE system needs to have a special FUSE driver, and I've not been able to find a linux read-write ext4 FUSE driver for linux.

Is there a way to mount ext4 images via FUSE (with write permission)?

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