Too much Internet free time » ext2 http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress Technology news and opinions straight from Paris, France Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:04:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Read/write Linux partitions from Windows http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/03/02/readwrite-linux-partitions-from-windows/ http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/03/02/readwrite-linux-partitions-from-windows/#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:00:17 +0000 Yves Roumazeilles http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/03/02/readwrite-linux-partitions-from-windows/ When you have a computer with multiple partitions on the same disk or several disks with different partitions, things start getting bad if one of them is a Linux Ext or Ext2 partition: Usually, you can’t access the Linux partition from your Windows computer, Microsoft totally ignore your disk/partition.

Ext2 IFS under WindowsIn order to correct this, you can/must use a special Windows driver able to recognize correctly those Linux Ext/Ext2 partitions. Ext2 IFS provides full read/write access. It’s is essentially a kernel ext2/ext3 filesystem driver for Windows. When installed in your Windows computer, it simply becomes able to natively access the Linux disk. After installing, you can mount your Linux partition under a drive letter, just like you would an NTFS partition. The drive will be available in Explorer and within any file browser dialog in your favorite Windows applications.

Download from fs-driver.org.

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