the possibly accurate nowTue, 30 Aug 2005
[02:30] Ext2 Installable File System For Windows
Date: 8/30/05 at 10:30AM
I have been using Ext2fsd for grabbing stuff off my ext2 formatted portable HDD. I was just about to install it on another machine this weekend and thought I'd check for newer versions and I found this: Ext2 Installable File System For Windows. Basically it
"...provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux ext2 volumes..."
It's a little more GUI oriented than Ext2fsd, can utilise
ext3 volumes and provides full read AND
write support for both ext2 and 3. Downsides? Although the software is freeware it is NOT Open Source, good for giving to people who are going to have issues once you start saying "and type cmd...". Now, we wander back to
Ext2fsd. It has recently jumped up to version 0.25 and it now ALSO supports full read/write access to ext2, ext3 is still read-only. This utility IS Open Source but I don't think that the authors first language is English so the available information and documentation is a bit difficult to navigate. Everything you're going to want to read is in the download rather than on the website (although there is some very interesting reading - if you're into file systems - linked from there).
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