hello all. longtime reader, first time poster
this is something I have been thinking about for a long time.
I think it needs to be a part of long file name support, which
seems to be pretty messy for compatability (multiple directory
entries to carry extra characters in the name).
since only 5
On 2013-11-20 05:45, Rugxulo wrote:
I vaguely recall (but never tried) that there used to be such a
(shareware?) DOS driver from Paragon Software [EDIT: IFSDRV?] that
could read ext2 and some others.
This would be a good solution. Only, in order to be useful such a driver
should target some
I probably found what I was looking for: the COMBOOTF.IMA file from
Lucho utilities.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/dos/lucho.html
But I could not find any documentation.
There is a reference to this on an unrelated forum:
Ext2 is forward compatible with ext3. There's simple migration tools
builtin to mkfs.ext3 on Linux, iirc. Then ext3 is forward compatible with
ext4 with similar tools. So it's kind of a Canadian cross situation but
you could you'll always be able to get access to an ext2 partition from
Linux.