[LUNI] SuSE free on my home PC

[D. Wade]

Branko Kotur wrote:

> There's a project that you can install on Windows that will allow it to access 
> EXT3 partitions without much problem.  However, I can't remember the name of 
> it at the moment.  

IFS Drives at http://www.fs-driver.org.

I love this thing.  Reliable, small, unobtrusive, integrated into 
Windoze control panel.

The (removable) disks on my backup fileserver are formatted with a tiny 
FAT partition containing just the installs for the IFS driver, and a 
huge ext2/ext3 partition containing all the data.  When I had to make an 
emergency run to a different state for a week but needed access to all 
the photos I have stored on the server, I just yanked one of the drives, 
stuck a USB cable on it, and took it with me.  Was able to use the IFS 
driver to browse/read/write to the disk, and then slot the disk back 
into the server when I got back home. (Synching changes was another story :)

--Derek