QuantumG wrote:
At the Ubuntu conf yesterday a number of people brought up the issue of transfering files from linux to windows on a dual boot machine. Apparently the vast majority of people still use a FAT32 partition to do this (or a FAT32 formated removable drive like a USB stick). I just thought I'd point out to those on this list an alternative. No-one really worries about putting stuff onto FAT32 in windows to get from linux because linux can read NTFS partitions reliably. If windows could read ext2/ext3 partitions no-one would worry about putting stuff onto FAT32 in linux either. Well, it can be done!
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm
Thanks for your useful post.
Addenda: there's also read/write Ext2 / 3 drivers for Mac OSX, and read/write NTFS drivers for Linux (check out captive NTFS).
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