NTFS filesystems

[Sorin Srbu]

John Nichel <> scribbled on Thursday, November 01, 2007 1:22 PM:

> Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> John Nichel <> scribbled on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:16 PM:
>> 
>>> What I ended up doing in cases like this was formatting the drive ext2,
>>> and using a ext2 driver for Windows...
>>> 
>>> http://www.fs-driver.org/
>> 
>> That's a new one for me! Does readin/writing ext2 work fine from within
>> windows? Basically, what's your experience with this?
>> 
>> I see some possibilities in the future. 8-)
>> 
>> 
> 
> Yep.  I've been using it for about a year now with a WD 320Gb drive and
> a Rosewill enclosure, and haven't had a problem.  It's supposed to
> support ext3 (read/write, not journaling) on the Windows side, but I
> haven't tried that.

Thx, that sounds good! I'll look into it. You never know when it might come in
handy.

-- 
  
BW,

Sorin

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