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Use cases & how-to guides

Step-by-step walkthroughs for the workflows vmount handles day-to-day. Each guide is a plain how-to — what you need, what to click, what happens under the hood, and where to look when something doesn't work.

Read & write NTFS on Mac

macOS reads NTFS but won't write to it. Apple's hidden write driver is unsafe. vmount uses production-grade NTFS-3G in a sandboxed Linux microVM — full read/write, no kernel extensions.

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Mount ext4 on macOS

macOS has zero ext4 support. vmount opens ext4 USB drives in Finder with full read/write, plus btrfs, XFS, and LUKS via the same VM.

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Recover a corrupted ext4 drive

When fsck or your Linux box can't read it, vmount's read-only mount + bundled debugfs / extundelete / ddrescue toolchain often gets the data back.

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Mount VMDK / QCOW2 / VDI / Parallels disks

Open VMware, QEMU, VirtualBox, and Parallels disk images directly in Finder — no need to boot the VM. Auto-recovers Parallels dirty headers from force-close.

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