Linux

[nickfrp]

Right dual booting ubuntu and xp and is working a teat (only done it 2 hour ago) now i used Automatix and installed the app to allow me when booting in ubuntu to view my NTFS partition. how can i see the Ext3 partition in windows?

i want to move stuff abck and forth

thansk
Nick

[jimothy]

Simple answer - by default you can't. Windows only recognises windows partitions, nothing else.

There probably are some tools somewhere that will make it work.

[nickfrp]

found one
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linu
www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs



really good aswell

[fredf]

I find the best way is to have a shared VFAT partition.
Writing to a NTFS partition from Linux has historically been poor (NTFS keeps changing slightly)
I've no experience of writing to ext3 from Windows

edited to add...
The link you provide only allows read access to the ext3 partitions.
I've found this which may be more useful: fs-driver. It allows you to mount the ext3 partitions properly so they appear as d: e: ...

Edited by fredf on Thursday 17th May 08:56

[Gateway Networks]

create a fat32 partition, both windows and linux can read from this type of partition.

i use it for my dual boot setup.

XP pro and Backtrack 2 Dristro


or just use a USB drive

Edited by Gateway Networks on Thursday 17th May 11:05

[ThePassenger]

fredf said:

I find the best way is to have a shared VFAT partition.
Writing to a NTFS partition from Linux has historically been poor (NTFS keeps changing slightly)
I've no experience of writing to ext3 from Windows

edited to add...
The link you provide only allows read access to the ext3 partitions.
I've found this which may be more useful: fs-driver. It allows you to mount the ext3 partitions properly so they appear as d: e: ...

Edited by fredf on Thursday 17th May 08:56

I use the ext2/ext3 driver on my XP Pro partition, works a treat. Only one gotcha from my install is that it doesn't know anything about your Linux users and writes everything out as root:root... can be a pain but nowt major.

Linux via either Capture or more commonly ntfs-3g & FUSE can read/write NTFS5.1 quite happily, I wouldn't trust it in a business critical situation mind but it does 'kinda' work; the downside is that it's a) a little slow b) can freak out over some file names.