Re: [PLUG] Windows driver for ext2/ext3

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I've also had good luck using exFAT on usb flash drives. It's got
native support on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Wikipedia tells me it's
even supported in iPadOS starting in version 13.1.

exFAT might not be as robust as NTFS, but in my experience I didn't
need it to be terrible robust. I just needed it to sneakernet the
occasional files between platforms, and it works great for that.

Walt

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 06:37:00PM -0400, Rich Mingin (PLUG) via plug wrote:
> Unfortunately I've only had experience with dodgy, issue-ful, and extremely
> limited extX drivers for Windows, and with 10 requiring signed drivers or
> extensive twiddling, I don't see it getting any easier.
> 
> I've had better luck getting Linux to RW ntfs than Windows reading any
> Linux filesystems, and I generally just move things across the network
> anymore, for that reason. If I have externals, they tend to be formatted
> exfat for the smaller ones and ntfs for the big ones, as those are the
> easiest wildcard filesystems. Exfat isn't terribly robust, but it's better
> than FAT32 and RW pretty much every OS, and ntfs is RO under macos, and
> sometimes RO under Linux, but it's the least work.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 6:32 PM Eric Lucas via plug <
> plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have several 64GB USB drives that I re-formatted to ext3. Now, when I
> > try to share one with my wife's Win10 system, it naturally won't read them.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with a trustworthy, solid, and safe solution
> > to get ext2/ext3 support in Windows?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
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