[Chester LUG] ext3 from Windows

[Ben Arnold]

Good morning --

I remember Paul mentioning he uses Windows partitions for
cross-platform data as Windows can't access extx(x). I thought I had
this fixed, but I couldn't remember the details so kept quiet but:

http://www.fs-driver.org/

has a filesystem driver for Windows. A quick install and reboot, use
the Computer Management to assign each partition a drive letter (Don't
Format as Windows seems to want you to!) as robert's your mother's
brother. You can even install it as a read-only driver if you're that
paranoid but I've had it access my ext3 from Vista and XP flawlessly.
Occasionally Linux wants an fsck but nothing major.

Note that the Linux partition must be marked clean for WIndows to get to it.

HIH,
Ben


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