Is there a way to view my ext3 Linux root partition in Windows?
At the moment all my files are stored on a FAT partition so I can view it as a drive letter in Windows and mount it in Linux.
I'd prefer to store my files in /home/tola/ and be able to view them from Windows when I need to.
Any suggestions?
Does this help?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
Chris
On 2003-12-04 00:17:41 +0000 Ben Francis ben@franci5.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Is there a way to view my ext3 Linux root partition in Windows?
I believe there was a read-only extension for ext2 under NT. Looking around, it may be at http://freesourcecodes.tripod.com/ext2.htm and there is a claimed Win95 driver at http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/content.html#FSDEXT2 or possibly proprietary Win2k/XP with crippleware demo at http://ashedel.chat.ru/ext2fsnt/
Writing to it may mangle permissions, IIRC.
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:17:41 +0000 Ben Francis ben@franci5.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Is there a way to view my ext3 Linux root partition in Windows?
Depends on the version of Windows. I've noticed that XP on my PC can see the ext2 and ext3 partitions, it even recognizes the linux swap partition.
Haven't tried anything more that directory browsing though.
Keith
Keith Watson wrote:
Depends on the version of Windows. I've noticed that XP on my PC can see the ext2 and ext3 partitions, it even recognizes the linux swap partition.
That's odd, it definately doesn't see mine, I wonder what we did differently...
Haven't tried anything more that directory browsing though.
It seems all the tools that people have suggested only allow read access. It looks like if I tried to write from windows it would only mess up the permissions. Perhaps I'll just have to give windows what windows wants as usual and stick with a FAT partition.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Ben Francis wrote:
It seems all the tools that people have suggested only allow read access. It looks like if I tried to write from windows it would only mess up the permissions. Perhaps I'll just have to give windows what windows wants as usual and stick with a FAT partition.
An NTFS partition might keep Windows happy, while having things we're used to in Linux such as file permissions and ownership.
On Sunday 07 December 2003 17:46, Dan Hatton wrote:
An NTFS partition might keep Windows happy, while having things we're used to in Linux such as file permissions and ownership
But isn't writing to NTFS still very experimental in Linux ?
Anyway how would the permissions thing work, one of the two OS's is going to have to ignore the file permissions.
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sunday 07 December 2003 17:46, Dan Hatton wrote:
An NTFS partition might keep Windows happy, while having things we're used to in Linux such as file permissions and ownership
But isn't writing to NTFS still very experimental in Linux ?
Anyway how would the permissions thing work, one of the two OS's is going to have to ignore the file permissions.
I haven't used NTFS with full-blown Linux, but Cygwin seems to handle writing to it OK, and use its file permissions.
On Sunday 07 December 2003 18:50, Dan Hatton wrote:
I haven't used NTFS with full-blown Linux, but Cygwin seems to handle writing to it OK, and use its file permissions.
It works very differently in Linux AFAIK.
Cygwin is still accessing it through the NT kernel and with the Microsoft Security model. I am pretty sure that Linux just ignores file permissions when acessing an NTFS volume, I can't see any other way it would work.
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