[ale] Windows file system drivers for ext2/3

Benjie benjie.godfrey at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 20:30:49 EST 2006


Your best bet is to stay with a shared fat32 partition.  I have seen several
attempts at writing a windows driver for ext2,  but in my experience none of
them have been very stable or easy to setup.
I'm curious though, what are you doing that you need a file larger than 2
GB?  Backups?

On 3/25/06, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You should be less keen on writing to ext2/3 from Windows. Having said
> that, I have used
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm with success in
> the past. I don't remember if I was gutsy enough to write to the
> ext2/3 partitions but I know I have used it to read data.
>
> On 3/25/06, Mailing Lists <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >     Have any of you used an ext2/3 file system driver from windows,
> > specifically windows 2000.  I have a dual boot setup that I would like
> > to be able to access from both windows and linux.  I've been using fat32
> > for years, but lately that's beginning to show it's limitations, namely
> > file size limits.  FAT32 has a filesize limit of 2 or 4 gigs, I've not
> > been able to nail that down yet.  Sometimes I can create files up to 4
> > gigs, most times not.  Might be applications specific.  I'm open to any
> > ideas to work around this, any other solutions.  I'm not too keen on
> > writing to NTFS yet from linux, the driver has a lot of restrictions.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Calvin...
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