read ext in windows xp

Ponny · #1 27th January 2010, 05:50 PM

kokodak

It's a simply question. In Windows XP -
a: Total Commander with plugin ex2fs
or
b: Ext2IFS_1_11a.exe

I can see only empty HDA3 - Linux disk.

civ-civ

Ponny

William Haller · #2 27th January 2010, 06:40 PM

F12 default is ext4. Earlier defaults were ext3. Perhaps the executable you mention only supports ext2 file systems.

errorxp · #3 27th January 2010, 07:13 PM

i have had zero luck with this as well, tried some different programs but none of them showed anything.

***Hlingler*** · #4 27th January 2010, 07:26 PM

Hello Ponny:

And welcome to the forum.

Duplicate threads merged. Cross posts/threads have been merged. Please do not cross post - forum policy permits only one thread at a time per topic.

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For what it's worth: I tried several Win* apps that purported to read ext* filesystems a long time ago, and surrendered after one resulted in serious filesystem corruption of my Linux OS. The result was completely fatal. Perhaps I tried a poor app(s), or perhaps those available have improved, but I would urge caution.

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jpollard · #5 27th January 2010, 07:42 PM

To my knowledge, only EXT2 is available.

Even though Ext3 is sort of compatible with Ext2, it is NOT Ext2. You would have
to downgrade the Ext3 filesystem to Ext2 first (tunfs). I don't think an Ext3
filesystem will work with the windows filesystem driver.

You cannot downgrade Ext4 - it will read Ext3 (and maybe Ext2, I'm not certain)
But once Ext4 is in use on the filesystem it will not be usable for any other version
(allocation extents are a different size and not readable).

Ponny · #6 28th January 2010, 03:53 PM

Sorry for complications. I tried to delete the verry first post ("read ext in windows xp" - second has ext3 in tittle), with virtual success at the moment, but no real success. This post is stil there.

By the way. What is default file system in Fedora 7? Because in FC7 I had normal read access from Windows XP.

Ponny

jpollard · #7 29th January 2010, 04:03 AM

I think that would be Ext2

Ponny · #8 29th January 2010, 01:27 PM

Well, then there is no hope for us. Hope is still hidden at the bottom of the Pandora's box (Pandora's jar).

I heard for few projects for readding LVM volumes in windows, but no one develeppped to concrete result.

Ponny

jpollard · #9 29th January 2010, 01:58 PM

Why? backup the partition/disk (which appears to be relatively recent) and create
an Ext2 filesystem to restore to.

Ext2 is still supported.

There are a number of problems with supporting Ext3/4 on Windows... One large
problem is the inability for windows to handle large filesystems.

lensman3 · #10 30th January 2010, 05:10 AM

The programs work fine. Linux now uses a 256 inode size as default. Those programs use the 128 byte inode size. When you use mkfs to build the ext? file system use -I 128.

Hope this helps.