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Re: [PLUG] Accessing ext(x) filesystems from windows
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Have you tried explore2fs? I didn't mention it earlier because Win2K's
security perms make it a little difficult to run. It would probably have
the same limitation that ext2fs.exe has with EXT3.
Another option would be to create a FAT32 partition on the disk and use
that for your documents. The FAT32 module for linux should be able to
handle reading and writing to it and you don't have to worry about
accidentially corrupting the NTFS partition on your Win2K installation.
On the 29th day of October in the year 2002 you wrote:
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:31:42 -0500
> From: Arthur S. Alexion <arthur@alexion.com>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Accessing ext(x) filesystems from windows
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> On Monday 28 October 2002 02:45 pm, Michael Leone wrote:
> > gabriel rosenkoetter said:
> > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:10:06PM -0500, Martin DiViaio wrote:
> > >> EXT3 is EXACTLY the same as EXT2 except that journaling is turned
> > >> on. You can use any of the EXT2 tools available to read the
> > >> partition without any problems. (You can even do it under Linux.)
> > >
> > > How does that help Arthur access either kind of partition from
> > > MS Windows?
> >
> > Possible because there is a EXT2 driver available for Windows, but no
> > EXT3 driver. But the EXT2 driver should let him read his EXT3 disk,
> > presuming that it's readable as a standard EXT2 disk, I imagine.
>
> OK, this is all quite helpful because here is what I am trying to
> accomplish.
>
> On the windows partition, I have a "Documents" (why do all of these
> companies -- not just MS -- keep prepending "My" to everything? Its so
> juvenile.) directory which I use like my unix home directory. I want
> to be able to access these file no matter which OS I use.
>
> I could just use my windows Documents directory whether in unix or
> windows (I've placed a symlink to it in my unix home directory), but my
> instincts tell me that is a bad idea.
>
> So, when working in Linux, I save to my home directory, and when
> working in windows, I save to my Documents directory. I want to make
> access to files created in the other OS as easy when working in windows
> as it is in Linux.
>
> What i've learned is that the read-only limitation of the ext2fs.exe
> utility is probably for the best since writing to it while under
> windows could jeopardize the journalling safeguards.
>
> ----
>
> One remaining question. Has anyone used ext2fs.exe? It claims to only
> work under win95, not 98. There is a broken link to a win98 version.
> I have the later release of win95 with fat32 (which is the win98 file
> system). Any thoughts or experiences?
>
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