On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:28:37 +0100, Catimimi
Greg Freemyer a écrit :
I have the same task as you this morning, getting a ext2 FS to be usable from windows. In my case I need full functionallity. ie. I need 250GB partitiona support, a drive letter assigned, then I need to be able to use normal windows software.
I found ext2fsd (like you did?), but the "alpha" quality rating is pushing me away. The good news is that a release was made in the last couple of weeks, but it looks like a pretty significant bug that was just fixed.
bug fixes are listed at http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm#ext2fsd
There is also ext2ifs which considers itself beta software under Win2K, but is read-only
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm
I also found a commercial product for $30 which one hopes is production quality.
http://www.ext2fs-anywhere.com/index.htm
It appears to be from a German software company (Paragon Software Group).
Does anyone have anything good or bad to say about Paragon?
Thanks Greg
I use ext2fs-anywhere in order to read and write to ext2 or ext3 partitions. It is OK with small (a few GB) partitions, but I got difficulties with 250GB partition so that I came back to NTFS. I write to NTFS under linux by using vmware and mounting a smbfs share. It works fine but it is rather expensive even with an education license.
Writing to ext2fs with Paragon give you up to 60% of non contiguous files and you get warnings with the trash under windows XP but it works.
Michel.
Based on the above, I'll give the ext2fsd driver a try. I also just saw the ext2 tools for cygwin were released this summer. They could prove usefull as well. http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-announce@cygwin.com/msg00897.html Greg -- Greg Freemyer