There is a tool called rfstool that reads reiserfs from Windows... I have used it under Windows XP and it works to copy files and directories... The version I have is rfstool-0.14, but there might be a newer version out there... Just google for it and I am sure you will find it... Daniel Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Donald Grayson wrote:
Did some checking and there is apparently some tools to let Windows read an EXT2/EXT3 filesystem. For more info try: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html
You can read NTFS from Linux, and you can write to NTFS using Captive, but it's not for newbies.
You can read & write to FAT32 from Linux, so you might want to install Windows XP on FAT32 if you want that. FAT32 is inferior to NTFS, but you won't feel performance degradation on a desktop machine. In case of power failures, it will take long to scan the filesystem, because FAT32 is not journalized, and NTFS is.
You can read ext2 and ext3 from Windows, using explore2fs (search google). There is no tool, AFAIK, to read reiserfs (or xfs, or jfs) from Windows.