Access ext3 and the like from M$ Windows?

[M.Hockings]

Thomas wrote:

> 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:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> 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
>
I dunno if this contains exactly what you were looking for but my elder 
son sent me this today (and I quote directly from his note):

>although your l337ness prolly already knows..
>http://slashdot.org/articles/04/01/14/1738230.shtml?tid=109&tid=130&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190
>

Other than scanning the article I have not tried this stuff from MS..

Mike