Access ext3 and the like from M$ Windows?

[Thomas]

Well, first thanx a lot to all who answered so fast.
Well, yes i meant local access on the same machine, when the MS os is 
booted.
I think LTOOLS may be what can help me.

To the statement of Robert:

> Microsoft has no incentive to write an ext2 driver, because they want it to remain as 
> difficult as possible for the two systems to co-exist.
> So... Who'd sit down and write such a driver? There's no advantage from either side 
> of the fence.

Well, most of that is true. But it is my personal experience, that the 
lack of a really good working common FS inhibits people that are lesser 
techies to convert to Linux. I have known a lot ppl who tried to use 
linux and gave up. A big point is because it was too difficult to access 
their data from each other OS while they still do not really know how to 
use a unix system correctly. I just assumed, that it is knowingly 
difficult to write linux driver for the MS filesystems (i dont consider 
the exising vfat and ntfs drivers as 'good working'), it should be a lot 
easier to write MS driver for the Lin filesystems. But i agree, the ppl 
who usually write drivers may have no interest at all in writing MS code.

Well, thanks for the links, though.

Thomas

David Jackson schrieb:

>>On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:03:19AM -0800, David Jackson penned with great
>>insight:
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>>
>>>Thomas --
>>>Do you mean access a Linux parition on the same box M$ is running on?
>>>It seems to me if there used to me a ready only tool that let you do
>>>that?
>>>Have you tried looking on http://freshmeat.net?
>>>
>>>Of couse if your mean located on a different box then the answer is
>>>samba?
>>>
>>>David
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Okay, yes I'm a moron.
>>    
>>
>We ALL got to a little "touched in the head" to get involved with *nix :)
>Anyway a quick search on http:/fresmeat.net for "dos filesystem" came up
>with:
>LTOOLS: The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools for reading and writing
>Linux ReiserFS, ext2, and ext3 filesystems from DOS, Windows, Solaris, or
>Linux.
>
>Here's the freshmeat link:
>http://freshmeat.net/projects/ltools/?topic_id=860%2C861
>
>And home page:
>http://www.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.html
>
>
>Your might also search http://sf.net (sourceforge.net)
>
>David
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