shoegoo Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 Anyone know of any good (preferably free) programs that support reading and writing to any or all of the major supported fielsystems of Linux? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 There is a driver for Windows to allow you to read Linux partitions (well some of them). BUT its like NTFS support in Linux, ever so slightly dodgey. I would strongly recommend using a shared FAT32 partiton for data, which both Linux and Windows can read happily. WinNT Driver for Ext2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/winext2fsd/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 I agree with mtweidmann, but if you mean sharing files with computers on a network then use SMB to share files from Linux, you don't want to go using FAT32 partitions unless you have to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 Good point, you don't need special windows drivers for accessing Linux shares on a network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoegoo Posted August 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 I meant on the same comp, and I do have a 10gb fat32 partition for documents and media. The other day I wanted to edit some config files, but I was too lazy to reboot, and I thought there was probably a driver or program to do this since most (all?) of the Linux Filesystems are open souce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted August 20, 2003 Report Share Posted August 20, 2003 There's explore2fs for Linux ext2 filesystems. It does not support other filesystem types and write access is tricky as always. It is not enabled by default, either, you have to enable it in the settings. http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted August 20, 2003 Report Share Posted August 20, 2003 Does this strike anyone else as odd considering they're open filesystems anyway.. It's not like they have to guess like we do to write something taht reads and/or writes to linux FS's... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted August 20, 2003 Report Share Posted August 20, 2003 Open file systems yes, open target OS no. Windows was not designed to support these filesystems, and MS are going out of their way to make it easy to support them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Ext2FS Anywhere, http://www.ext2fs-anywhere.com/ I don't have a dual boot system, so I can't try it, but the review in the APC magazine was quite positive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 I used to use explore2fs to copy stuff from Linux to Windows. Never tried writing though. It worked fairly well. It *should* work on ext3 partitions as well, since they just have a journal on top of ext2. Don't quote me on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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