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Reading Linux File systems in Windows

tech-bytes.co.uk — If like me you dual boot Windows and Linux, no doubt you will have come across the odd time when you have needed that über important document you need to work on urgently only to realise that it is saved on your Linux partition and you are logged in to Windows.

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  • Appleboi4evr, on 06/08/2008, -0/+4Yep.
  • ileftfark, on 06/08/2008, -0/+1Yep, I've been using Explore2fs for a while now. The only thing I don't like is lack of drag n drop - everything has to be right-clicked and imported or exported. Also, it has problems copying a large number of files from Linux to Windows. Luckily, I don't need it for much; I just like to know I have that capability just in case.
  • Kingoftherings, on 06/08/2008, -0/+1Yep, just use ntfs-3g. I know Ubuntu has it out of the box, but some other distros don't.
    Then to mount with ntfs-3g, use it in place of the mount command (ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt)
  • Locke2007, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1now possible^^^^
  • brad3378, on 06/07/2008, -1/+2I've been out of the Linux scene for a few years.
    Is it now possible to safely read (and write) NTFS partitions from Linux?
  • infoking12, on 06/07/2008, -1/+2Hummmm .... this is nice to know about. Thanks!
  • Locke2007, on 06/07/2008, -1/+1Yeah it's no possible to read and write to NTFS from Linux by using NTFS-3G it comes as standard with Ubuntu :D
  • jamesatdigg, on 06/08/2008, -2/+1here are more tools http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tools-to-access-linux-pa ...

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