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Re: [LUG] External hard drives

 

On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:50:02 +0000
bjorn grohmann wrote:

> > Talking of which - why are there no apps for reading ext3/4 etc on
> > windows????
> 
> Ext2 FSD is an open source Linux ext2/ext3 file system driver for
> Windows systems. Being open source and actively developed is a good
> thing. Making it more desirable than ext2 IFS
> 
> http://www.ext2fsd.com
> 
> The Ext2fsd installer would need to be on a USB stick that was
> partitioned to a file system readable by windows say Fat32
> 
> Regards Bjorn

Or, if the purpose is to allow a large EXT2/3 formatted external
hard-drive partition to be accessed by a Windows machine, then you
could always create a small FAT32 formatted partition on the same
drive which contains the EXT2FSD tool.

Grant.

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