SUSE, (and other Linux), and Windows
- From: VWWall <vwall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:06:58 GMT
Like many, I've set up Linux as a multi-boot on my WinXP machine.
To get access to files and data, which I use on both OS's, I have a partition formatted as FAT32. This has worked well, but I recently tried:
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
" It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer."
"The "Ext2 Installable File System for Windows" software is freeware."
The author, Stephan Screiber, wrote the ext drivers, after receiving the wrong Windows book by mistake!
It seems to work as described. It will not work with reiserfs, which my SUSE 10 has as default, but ext2 and ext3 show up in Windows Explorer just as if they were a part of Windows. It includes a Control Panel program to assign drive letters to Linux partitions.
I hear SUSE is going back to ext3 as a default file system.
I can understand the Linux partitioning better seeing it in the familiar Windows format.
Give it a try, if you're double-booting with Windows. In my case, in addition to two Windows, (WinXP and WinXP x64), I have PCLOS, MEPIS, and SUSE 10 on a total of 11 partitions. Al except for the SUSE reiserfs ones showed up OK.
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Virg Wall
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