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On 19/07/13 10:13, tom wrote: > I guess its NTFS cos one needs to talk to legacy OSes (and it came > like that?). Has anyone tried Ext2Fsd or similar windows software for > reading ext2/3 on windows? > Tom te tom te tom Yes, I use it regularly (Ext2fsd). Install it in XP compatibility mode on Win7 or it will fail. Do NOT enable the write mode if you value your data. It will happily mount and read Ext2/3/4 with no problems. I have not yet tried it on Win8, although I really should. On Macs you'll need the Paragon NTFS driver - it's not free as in beer or freedom, but it is cheap and solid, unlike the abandon-ware free FUSE based versions floating around which will eat your data alive. Sadly, they still haven't fixed the 1.5Tb partition limit as far as I know: it's listed clearly as a warning in their readme and they are not joking. Accidentally mounting my 2Tb ext4 partition on my i5 box (which doubles (triples?) as a hackintosh/windows/linux machine) resulted in catastrophic failure, unfixable by fsck. Luckily - see the last few mails on data backups - it wasn't a problem, just an inconvenience. Apparently Paragon have not yet realised that 4Tb drives are available and 2Tb drives have been available for years... Network sharing via SMB/NFS/etc is much safer, although impractical on a single box. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq