Tips&Tricks Accessing Linux partitions from Windows

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Maciek

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Joined: 04 Jul 2002

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Location: Perth

 

Post Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 3:39 pm Post subject: Accessing Linux partitions from Windows

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It is possible to access certain types of Linux partitions on Windows. While access is usually read only, it's better than none Smile

 

Explore2FS is a graphical (Explorer-like) utility for accessing ext2 and ext3 partitions.

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

 

LTools is a command line utility for accessing ext2

http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/s...toolsDWLD.shtml

 

RFSTool is possibly the only utility (command line) to access ReiserFS system from Windows

http://p-nand-q.com/reiser4win.htm

 

There a probably other tools, if you know any, please post the information here.

 

 

DuoICE

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Joined: 23 Jun 2002

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Location: Mannheim, Germany

Post Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 11:36 pm Post subject:

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That one is called R-Linux

http://www.r-tt.com/RLinux.shtml

 

What they write:

 

R-Linux is a free file recovery utility for the Ext2FS file system used in the Linux OS and several Unixes. R-Linux uses InteligentScan technology and flexible parameter settings that give you real control over the fastest data recovery ever seen. It recovers files from existing logical disks even when file records are lost. However, there is no any network capabilities or ability to reconstruct damaged RAIDs or stripe sets in R-Linux.

 

Exclamation Be careful Exclamation

On my LM8.2/Win98SE box, R-Linux only shows the first of 2 home directories in the logical ext2-partition /dev/hdb6 mounted as /home. Instead of the second directory it shows a lot of lost/invalid clusters. Linux' fschk reports that partition as clean, and Explore2fs (see above posting) also correctly shows it. However, the primary /dev/hdb1 mounted as / is shown correctly.

 

 

 

Editor's note: This thread was originally posted at the old MUB (Mandrake User Board at club-nihil). This post is the result of a 99% automatic backup, so due to its nature some text may be lost (improbable but possible).