[plug] Accessing a ext2fs from windows or dos

[Michael Hunt]

Well I just tried explore2fs on a dual boot NT Workstation/RedHat 6.1 box
and she worked a treat. I would take the warning very seriously as this
stuff is still very much I  testing phase though. It was stable in read only
mode and I can navigate everything perfectly fine.

Didn't require a reboot for this though and didn't try to do any files
copies or change to write mode. I am going to rebuild the NT partition for a
new employee soon (get rid of all my junk etc) so I'll probably be more
willing to trash the disk then. But now I have some work to do ....

Michael Hunt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Nick Bannon
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 11:35 AM
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Accessing a ext2fs from windows or dos
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:38:45AM +0800, Paul Baumgarten wrote:
> > If I have a dual boot box (Windows + Linux) and want to
> > access the ext2fs while in Windows/Dos does someone
> [...]
>
> You'll be wanting the Filesystems HOWTO ;
> http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/fs/Filesystems-HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html
>
> It contains links to the two mentioned so far. I've given fsdext2 a go
> and it worked well (after an initial reboot).
>
> I'd keep things read-only if i were you - I'd trust these implementations
> of ext2fs less than I'd trust Linux'es implementation of FAT.
>
> Nick.
>
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