Windows recognizes and gives my fedora partition a drive letter, but it shows it as blank. Is there a way to get windows to read ext3 filesystem? Its a fedora 10 partition.
A:
See the answers to my similar question on ServerFault.com:
Summary of the best answer I got (and other answers were later deleted, I assume by their authors): Use ntfs-3g to access the NTFS filesystem from Linux. You will have a much smaller chance of filesystem corruption doing it this way than using any of the existing ext2/3 drivers from Windows.
Eddie
2009-05-21 22:32:44
way to link to a private beta
ryansstack
2009-05-21 22:34:58
I think he just wants to gloat about having an invite. ;)
JensenDied
2009-05-21 22:40:02
I want an invite :(
Aiden Bell
2009-05-21 22:42:17
Check out the blog. At the bottom of every StackOverflow page is a link to the blog. There are two recent blog entries directly related to the beta of ServerFault.
Eddie
2009-05-21 23:13:20
@ryansstack: If a question is closed as "belongs on serverfault" then it appears to automatically be moved over there. I figured, therefore, that it was acceptable to crosslink.
Eddie
2009-05-21 23:17:27
To whomever downvoted my answer: What about my answer is incorrect or offensive?
Eddie
2009-05-21 23:37:15
+2
A:
I'd take a look at EXT2 IFS for Windows.
Several things to keep in mind with this.
- Ext3 is backwards compatible with Ext2, it just doesn't write to the journal
- NTFS is case insensitive, this may screw with you depending on what you are moving
- Some filenames that are valid in Ext2/3 are invalid in NTFS/VFAT like : and $
- Special files will be inaccessible, sockets, soft links, block devices
- permissions are not maintained
- Will not work with LVM volumes
It will let you read and write to it though ;)
JensenDied
2009-05-21 22:53:35
this is what i just downloaded, i'll tell you all how it works when i install it.
ryansstack
2009-05-21 23:05:33
A:
I know that you want to mount your Fedora partition but from experience I have found that the best way to share a partition with Windows is to format as NTFS and use ntfs-3g to access it in Linux.
I tried using the ext2 Windows app mentioned by JensenDied a couple of years ago and ended up having problems accessing data on the USB drive that it was being used with.
Mark
2009-05-21 23:12:31