access/view linux ide notebook drive from windows box

Question

hey.

trying to figure out if/how i can view the contents of a notebook linux ide from the usb port of a windows box...

should be straightforward.. don't want to write to the disk, just read..

also.. if i have a linux box, and i assume that the drive was formatted, using the default processes (using fedora/centos), what's the basic cmd to mount/access the external drive if i use a linux box?

thanks

Answer 1

It is possible depending on the filesystem used on the Linux disk. If the partitions on the disk you're interested in uses ext2 or ext3 as file format you can mount them on a Windows machine via ext2fsd or ext2 IFS.

Mounting a partition on Linux works the way it works on Linux: using mount. There is no difference if the drive is an external USB drive or an internal (except for the device node of course).