[Cialug] ext3 support under Windows (was: GNOME partition Editor)

[Nathan Stien]

On 3/14/07, Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
> Also, I have a windows partition on my computer, but I have the bare
> minimum allocated to it (weelll, something like 15G). Then, in XP I've
> installed the ext2/ext3 ifs driver for Windows and mount my /home
> partition as a drive letter. This allows me to access all my important
> files in either OS. Admittedly, I spend maybe 2 hours in Windows a
> month, so I've set this up to be more convenient from Linux than
> Windows. However, I've also tried the opposite, storing Linux data on
> NTFS and it doesn't work nearly as well as using ext3 in Win.

I used to do a lot more dual booting (e.g., I used to play games on
WinXP), but last time I tried it (few years ago), the ext2/ext3
drivers for windows were pretty unstable for me.  And so far I've
always felt NTFS write support under Linux to be a risk at best, so I
ended up with a wasteful VFAT partition for transferring files from
Linux to the Windows side of things.

I take it from your commentary here that the win32 ext3 drivers are
working out well for you?  Do you _really_ trust it, or do you perhaps
end up doing tune2fs for some extra fscks just to be safe?  ;-)


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