On 11/29/05, S. Anthony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:54 +0000, Cedric wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I have some files i want to have available on both windows and linux. As
> > windows is not able to access ext3 partitions i have made a  script i run on
> > boot and on shutdown of linux. /d is the mountpoint of my fat32 partition,
> > the root FS is ext3.
>
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
>
> Claims that win access to ext3 is possible.

That one is ok, but in my experience, the order of quality on windows
ext2/3 fs readers is:

1. ext2fsd - http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/index.htm
2. ext2ifs - http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm
3. explore2fs - http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

One I haven't tried is ext2fsnt - http://ashedel.chat.ru/ext2fsnt/.

ext2fsd is by far the best in my opinion.  It seamlessly integrates
into the windows shell, and it uses a more standard Linux mount
command syntax.  And if you get it integrated with Cygwin, you are
cooking with oil!  Along with Linux-NTFS, it almost makes dual-booting
bearable.

ext2ifs is buggy and hangs often.  explore2fs doesn't integrate with
the windows utilities.

None of them offer write support that I know of, but I don't think
that's what you're after anyway.  There's some proprietary ones
available that might be better (Paragon Mount Everything
http://www.mount-everything.com), but I'm not paying $40.

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Dan
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