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- evilpig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32No need for the site, just download this and install, just that easy.
http://www.fs-driver.org/download/Ext2IFS_1_10c.exe - hello2usir, on 10/12/2007, -11/+38I'm sure you get them all the time but people who know what they're doing generally don't get viruses.
- mctk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I have been using IFS-drive ( http://www.fs-driver.org/ ) since I bought my laptop and have had no problems. Creates an entry in your control panel and uses a visual interface rather than command line.
- scratched, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11ext3 is backwards compatible. It will still work, journaling just won't be enabled.
The open source ext2 drivers work with ext3 also. I'm using it right now. - r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10What an odd thing to say. The probability of that happening is quite remote, and not worth mentioning when compared with the benefits of being able to access your linux partition/drive from windows. Also, the fact that most users capable of running a dual boot are pretty capable, and unlikely to become infected with such a virus (spyware and bot controlling software are much more common these days than randomly destructive viruses, suffice to say, what you're talking about is just really really improbable).
- PhonicUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Not too helpful for those of use who use ReiserFS :P
- coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@netdroid9
Here you go: http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs - HardwareLust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I love diggs where the comments have more useful information than the article posted.
One of the very few advantages of digg. - kudos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/
Open source with a GUI interface, mounts my read-only ext3 partition automatically on boot and only took a couple of clicks. - coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@netdroid9
Oblivion is mostly working under wine now: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5777 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@BobbyOnions: Know an OSS alternative of any kind? Post if so.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7@jer2eydevil88: Not true. I'm all for OSS, but that doesn't mean I want to sacrifice Oblivion for it. Sweet, sweet Oblivion. Not to mention all the people who're trying to get things running on WINE. There are a bunch of OSS advocates who're forced to use Windows for certain tasks.
- arachnist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ext3 may be old, but it's still quite fast, and is far more reliable than killer^Wreiserfs is. Haven't yet tried zfs.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@jer2eydevil88
As an open source developer, I need to say that Open Source, like walking instead of driving, is a better way for many many reasons. But like the before mentioned example, there is always a personal weighing of the options to be made when it comes to open source. Dissing users of close source unless you have a 100% superior open source option is totally uncalled for, and in this case, IFS has many advantages that I could see a very reasonable person opting for over the general "open source advantage". - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This might help:
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html - pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3as a matter of fact this couldnt have been more timely. I have been looking for something like this for a while.
- jhuebel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3At the same time, if you are more security conscious, you probably consider Linux your "safe computing" environment. Someone who's truly paranoid about security (I am, for instance) would consider using ext2ifs as a security no-no. Should you fit into that category, then using a tool like explore2fs would probably be a much better choice for accessing your ext2/3 partitions from Windows. It allows on-demand access to ext2/3 partitions without leaving your partitions vulnerable when they aren't in use.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yes, fine, but I have ReiserFS partitions from SuSE and Ubuntu.That's the point I was making.
- Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I haven't had much luck getting access to my ReiserFS partitions in Windows. The only thing I could find is ReiserDriver, and that is very unstable, BSODs my computer virtually every time I try to access the drive.
- DRagonRage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3its not a linux partition its a ex2 driver what about reiserfs xfs ex3?
oh and btw its a major security hole!
when you mount your partition it allows you to view/edit root filesystem with can be harmfull for your system !!! - loserhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://digg.com/linux_unix/Mount_your_Linux_partitions_under_windows_
you should really try this out instead. it makes it possible for XP to natively support ext2 and ext3 partitions. you do not need to have a startup script or run any kind of application. - cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even if a partition is Ext3, you'll still have to fsck it if Windows crashes. All the Ext drivers for Windows are for Ext2, so journaling doesn't work.
- bertdevriese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anyone know if this is possible with mac partitions and external disks? (HFS/HFS+)
Macdrive 6 doesn't work that well - Nebbie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@arachnist
I agree with you about ext3
I'm using ext4 right now on linux (as I'm not 100% happy if there is something shinier out there) and performance is great for me. I haven't done testing comparing the same partition with ext3, but testing to separate partitions on my computer (1 ext3, the other ext4) there seems to be a decent improvement, and I hope progress continues in regards to ext performance.
I was using reiser4 for my new install a couple weeks ago, performance for a straight RAM to disk copy was about 5mb/sec (even on a completely new and empty partition). Ext still seems to be the overall king of performance for general use (other filesystems may be better at specific tasks though). - Erectus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ext is so 90's... Reiser and ZFS in windows would be nice... hey I can dream can't I? :)
I'd be interested to see how ext IFS drivers work in windows. NTFS is horribly fragmented and Ext typically is not. Could be some real benefits to running ext in Windows. Just sharing data isn't that useful to me since I use VMWare and Samba to do it natively.
I would strongly recommend a full fledged Ext3 over 2 because of journaling. If the driver crashes in windows you could be stuck with a dirty drive and a long fsck to get the filesystem up again. - neopath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs
- CodeMasseur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed.
- yagotta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ext2 is praehistoric stuff, obsolete and forgotten for quite a long time. And rightly so.
The author seems to have . a b s o l u t e l y . no clue, because he is bringing themes like this to the general public NOW.
Unless you are an uebergeek who knows exactly why use ext2, and where use ext2, after it has been dropped, you’d better not use it at all.
Geez, it’s 2007 and _not_ like 1997 any more.
Yours,
YBK - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And I could mount a partition in such a way that the existing permissions were ignored too. Is that a major security hole? Maybe for some folks, but for most people, it's not a real problem.
- DRagonRage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*****
- cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only problem with this (and also fs-driver) is that because it's for Ext2, journaling won't work on Ext3 partitions. So basically if Windows crashes and you have to do a hard reboot, you need to fsck the drive in Linux.
- Nebbie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree that right now using virtualization software is the best way to go for accessing linux partitions.
I've done the same thing myself, but went the more OSS approach and use CoLinux in Windows. Works great but takes some time to set up how I like. Runs my actual Gentoo installation from my other partitions as a service when Windows boots, accessible over Samba, and I use Xming to run graphical apps on the windows desktop. Same thing can be be done with vmware I'm sure, but I never did figure out how to run vmware as a service.
Using full journaling I've never lost data or corrupted my Linux installation during BSODs and other crashes. Resource usage is very minimal for a high end machine. It's stuff like this that multicore CPUs are great at. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If your computer is being accessed by a hacker that doesn't make this a security hole anymore than somebody being able to access the drive by removing it from your machine.
Now there are ways to prevent that, but they're just not worth it for most people. - gommle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How do I convert ext2 to ext3? I'm tired of waiting 10-15 minutes for fsck to finish if my computer crashes.
- loserhead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2http://digg.com/linux_unix/Mount_your_Linux_partitions_under_windows_
i have been using IFS Drive since installing windows on this pc. i buried this story. it is pointless. - zttrx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Though this is for ext2, it will probably work with ext3 as well, which is the same thing except with journaling. However...I would very highly suggest NOT using this method to write to an ext3 partition unless you know ext3 well enough to fix it when it explodes.
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2hello2usir has a valid point. If you are at the point in your computer knowledge that you are duel booting Windows and Linux, you are certainly more security concisions than the average AOL user. I'm not saying that it is not impossible for an experienced computer user to get a virus... that is as easy as someone clicking a link such as http://www.fs-driver.org/download/Ext2IFS_1_10c.exe.
edit: my statement was not to undermine evilpig's statement, just making a point. - mabhatter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the security concerns are minimal. A virus or spyware would have to know about the Linux file system and where to find stuff... as normal Windows indexing won't automatically find stuff for you. None of these allow windows to automatically detect EXT2/3 drives... they all require some manual intervention.. or setting up some kind of automatic .bat file. I use EXT2FDS... but they're all about the same in that they emulate the file system via an exe file for windows to see it. The EXT2IFS guys supposedly have the Windows File system driver kit, but their stuff is shareware.. not free (as in speech).
Frankly, I'd like better, but it's a start! For fun I actually put together a drive with a Fat32, EXT3, & HFS+ partitions each formated by it's respective OS... then the tools to view the partition on each other OS. Good ole Linux takes the cake as it is the easiest to get to work with other file systems... Windows is the absolute worst for reading non-standard file systems. - DRagonRage, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yes it is and not in case of your computer being hacked and accessed by a hacker but when you exedently modify some of your file and the linux stops work properly,
- caffeine1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm fairly certain I don't want my Windows OS to go anywhere near my Linux filesystems.
In fact, I don't even want my Windows OS to know anything about my Linux filesystems... - LYATES, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0More on LinuxWindows can be found at:
http://www.laysi.com/rpmbw/linuxstuff.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Pixelmixer, you say you've been looking for a while?
It takes about 5 seconds to type ext2 windows into your choice of search engines and get an answer.
Where exactly where you looking? - gildude, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I just had a thought: for years there were those linux based boot CD's (even floppies) designed to boot and reset the administrator password on Windows. Now, it seems I can add this driver (or the one people pointed to over at fs-driver.org) to my WinPE 2.0 CD and boot and reset a Linux passwd file or whatever the passwords go in these days? (I may have the terminology all wrong, but the thought was funny anyway.)
- SirJeannot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0freaking old, i've been using that for ages
- xmuzik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0i'm gonna have to try this out :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Hmm, so umpteen years old is news now?
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2@Bobbyonions
I doubt that people who are using Windows are very concerned with the ideology behind open source, even if they are its unlikely that they care about it enough to sacrifice this kind of functionality for it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0@webcrumb: Reader Speed Launch and Synchronizer have been removed. Weather Watcher stays!
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3First, this is for ext2.
Secondly, while he gains points for having Jedi Concentrate, he loses multiple points for having both Reader Speed Launch and Synchronizer. And Weather Watcher? Forecastfox Enhanced FTW!!! - BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -13/+0As mentioned above, Ext2-IFS is not open source.
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