Mounting USB Drive Formatted in APFS In Ubuntu

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if you have a drive formatted in Apple Filesystem (APFS)

You can use the apfs-fuse driver to mount it

to build apfs-fuse

note: on more current ubuntu's the apt-install command included a library that doesn't seem to exist anymore "gcc-c++". but otherwise the instructions work great.

sudo apt install fuse build-essential libfuse3-dev bzip2 libbz2-dev git libattr1-dev zlib1g-dev

to mount a drive

i received errors of "Unable to get volume!" when trying to mount. some people seem to go in and change the source and rebuild, but it seems like the answer is in running:

This will list the available drives and specifically the "Volume" for that mount you want. then you specify the volume when mounting sudo ./apfs-fuse -o vol=1 /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb

to unmount the drive

umount /mnt/usb