Windows access Ext3

[mstanford01]

I have two separate hard drives, one with Windows 2000 (my W2k is installed Fat32 and not the usual NTFS) and the other with Linux. I am able to access the Windows drive from Linux (of course) but if I try and access the Linux hard drive from windows I get an error saying the drive isn't formatted correctly. Is there some what I can make the Linux drive accessible from Windows. Thanks a lot,

Matthew

[sham69]

You may have to set up a Fat 32 partition to share files between the two OS.

[fingal]

As far as I know you can't (easily) read Linux partitions from Windows. You may have heard of an application called Samba? That could be your solution

http://us1.samba.org/samba/what_is_samba.html

[scuzzman]

There is a program known as explore2fs that can read ext2/3 partitions through Windows. Download here. I've used it, it works pretty well - although, it gives practically root access...

[mstanford01]

Thanks everyone for your responses. I was able to fix the problem by using two seperate programs. First I used ext2ifs, which made the drive available to access http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm then I used ext2fsd, which made the drive writable. http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/proje...ts.htm#ext2fsd

I hope this helps others,


Matthew