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Sirber
15th January 2006, 23:39
It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
communist
15th January 2006, 23:47
Yep I've been using this for some weeks - works fine so far :)
Sirber
16th January 2006, 13:27
I'm thinking of "converting" my dual 200GB into ext2 so I can use the datas in dual boot :)
random asshat
17th January 2006, 08:52
I'll be glad to finally be rid of the "FAT" on partitions that need to be accessible
on both sides of the dual boot.


// eagerly awaits stable *nix NTFS write support
mic64
17th January 2006, 10:15
well my experience with those drivers were not that good.
crashed quite often and make boot into win sometimes impossible.

mic64
Bandung
26th January 2006, 22:55
I've had similar problems with this driver. It works reasonably well 80 -90% of the time. But when it fails me, it has cost me data plus creating windows start problems. I've reduced the start problems by always booting from a floppy but I can't escape the issue of data corruption.

I am willing to try the new ntfs read write driver which is implemented in user space rather than entirely within the kernel. I don't care that its slow. I just want it to work. For now, I won't trust any of my critical data to these tools. I simply use a FAT partition. That of course limits file sizes or partition sizes but at least its safe.
garbii
2nd February 2006, 22:29
Well I use those drivers for quite a while ...

there was like "a" and "b" version ... Thanks to "a" version I lost linux installation when windows crashed while reading sth on hd...
Maybe it was the driver fault maybe not ...


As for "b" version I dunno I have it, but I do not use it often , just becouse I do not use windows often lately :)
unplugged
3rd February 2006, 00:26
Ext2fs not stable?

I get confused a bit ... mic64, Bandung, garbii, are you referring bad experience with the "ext2 driver for Windows" or with the "NTFS driver for Linux"?
garbii
3rd February 2006, 00:30
Ext2fs not stable?

I get confused a bit ... mic64, Bandung, garbii, are you referring bad experience with the "ext2 driver for Windows" or with the "NTFS driver for Linux"?

I'm refering to ext2 drivers for windows , although as I said it might have not been their fault as this happend pnly once... I was a beginner Linux user when this happened so just "maybe" it was me who was responsible :P or a bad luck.


Though still these drivers give u a full read/write access to root partition under windows :( It's a bit scarry for me .