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linux file system on windows

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minofifa

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hey
just thought i would share this software i found when wasting time on stumble (firefox). apparantly you can use this in windows so that you can read/write linux file systems. I know this may solve a huge potential problem for me as a split windows/linux user.

does anybodyuse this / would they recommend it?
 
Usually those utilities are good for reading/writing to Ext2 FS, however it can have problems writing to Ext3 FS. Just like in Linux with NTFS, the journaling file systems can be corrupted by writing to them with an OS that they are not native to.
 
Originally posted by: Zelmo3
Is it easier/more functional than Samba?
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Samba is for network shares. The software in question, if it is what I think it is, is just an ext2fs driver for Windows. It would allow dualbooters to use their Linux drives while in Windows.
 
Awesome, it's a native Windows driver for ext2/ext3 linux filesystems !!!! Not sure what you mean by FAT/NTFS - this is good for reading and possibly writing into Linux partitions.
 
I've been using that for a few months now... I have a bunch of mp3s on what was an ext3 partition... access it mainly from Windows. When I booted Ubuntu last time, though, it forced fsck, and now it is identifying it as ext2, so I suppose I've screwed up the journalling component of ext3 on that partition (which is completely logical).

That said, I've had absolutely no problems with using it. I can read/write with no apparent difficulty.
 
Just like in Linux with NTFS, the journaling file systems can be corrupted by writing to them with an OS that they are not native to.
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It has nothing to do with journaling, it has to do with the fact that writing NT IFS drivers is a PITA and until recently the IFS DDK from MS cost a pretty penny, there's virtually no motivation for a Linux developer to spend time writing a driver for Windows. And on the flip side NTFS support sucks on Linux because MS won't release any good docs covering the format under an acceptable license.
 
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