Writing to ext3 fs from XP

Dylan Semler dylan.semler at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 14:11:26 UTC 2006


On 12/4/06, Vivek J. Patankar <list307 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hadders wrote:
> >  Just wondering if anybody has had any experience of writing to an ext3
> > partition within windows.
>
> I have been using the ext2ifs (v1.10b) and it writes to ext3 file
> systems well enough. No problems noticed.
> This is a windows utility which enables read/write for ext2/3 partitions
> in Windows. You can assign a drive letter to the partition using the
> configuration applet placed in the control panel.
>

Yeah, the driver works very well with ext3.  However, it does not work with
LVM so be sure to not format any LVM partitions.  Also, wasn't the fat32
limit at 2GB?

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