[LUNI] FS for everyone?

[Mike Crawford]

I don't mind so much, once NWN for linux comes out, I'll be as good as
gold :)

-----Original Message-----
From: luni-admin at luni.org [mailto:luni-admin at luni.org] On Behalf Of Joe
Digilio
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 9:35 AM
To: luni at luni.org
Subject: RE: [LUNI] FS for everyone?


Check out this site:
http://tarzan.cr.cyco.com/~andreys/ext2fsnt/

He created an ext2 driver for windows... but it has become part of
Paragon ( http://www.paragon.ru/ ) which you have to pay for.

Hope that helps...
Joe


--- Mike Crawford <mike at tuxnami.org> wrote:
> There is that, but it's just a browser, looking at the raw partition.
> It doesn't give the OS the capability to read the FS.  It should work
> under XP just fine, since XP is derived from 2k.  What I'd like to
> see
> is ReiserFS/XFS/JFS/Ext2/3 native support for the Microsoft operating
> systems.  That way, I don't need to use such a poor FS (FAT32) for
> common storage :)
> 
> mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: luni-admin at luni.org [mailto:luni-admin at luni.org] On Behalf Of
> russ
> arbuthnot
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 4:29 PM
> To: luni at luni.org
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] FS for everyone?
> 
> Just as a note:
> 
> A program called "explore2fs" helped me read an ext3 file system from
> windows 
> 2000 once. Don't know if it'll work for XP or not. But just thought
> I'd 
> mention it.
> 
> russ
> 
> On Tuesday 13 August 2002 04:11 pm, Mike Crawford wrote:
> > Actually, I don't think BSD or Linux have stable NTFS read.  As
> everyone
> > else has said, use FAT32, all operating systems will read that.  XP
> > cannot read UFS or ext2, and I'm not sure on BSD's support for
> ext2.
> I
> > also don't recommend ext2 because of all its limitations.  I'd
> recommend
> > reiserFS, XFS or JFS, because they are Journaled and more robust.
> >
> > mike
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luni-admin at luni.org [mailto:luni-admin at luni.org] On Behalf Of
> > Chris McAvoy
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:34 PM
> > To: luni at luni.org
> > Subject: [LUNI] FS for everyone?
> >
> > I'm in the process of rebuilding my desktop.  I'm planning on
> putting
> > Red
> > Hat and Debian on there, as well as FreeBSD and Windows XP.  I'd
> like
> to
> > create a big empty partition that everyone can use to share files.
> I'm
> > assuming that I'll have to make it NTFS, so that XP can read it? 
> Am I
> > underestimating XP's ability to read UFS or ext2?  For that matter,
> can
> > FreeBSD read ext2?
> >
> > What kind of options do I have for that shared slice?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> 
>
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