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Ext2Fsd -- How Reliable Is It?
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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:45 pm Posts: 4871 Location: Penn's Woods Has thanked: 537 times Have thanks: 398 times 
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Post # 298464
 Ext2Fsd -- How Reliable Is It?Since I use Windows so seldom, I'm considering converting my NTFS data partitions over to EXT4, but I still want to be able to have R/W access to them from Windows. My questions:
1. How reliable and safe is the Ext2Fsd driver for Windows; i.e, what is the risk of data loss or corruption of the partition? 2. Will Ext2Fsd work with EXT4, or only EXT2 and 3? 3. What would happen if an EXT2, 3, or 4 partition were mounted in Windows and I accidentally ran the disk defragmentation program on it? _________________ SimplyMEPIS is SimplyTHEBEST Mepis 8.5; 2.6.32-1-mepis-pae (Internal 2.6.32-12); 4GB RAM 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 4600+ NVidia GeForce 6150 LE; 304.51 Display Driver |
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:30 pm |
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Post # 298465
Re: Ext2Fsd -- How Reliable Is It? I have it installed on XP. I use it sparingly. It works, at least for reading ext4. I don't trust it to write. But that's just me.
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:40 pm |
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MEPIS Guide   Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:30 pm Posts: 1243 Location: Flinthills of Kansas, USA Has thanked: 183 times Have thanks: 112 times
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Post # 298466
Re: Ext2Fsd -- How Reliable Is It? dunno but found wikipedia pretty informative > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:44 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:45 pm Posts: 4871 Location: Penn's Woods Has thanked: 537 times Have thanks: 398 times
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Re: Ext2Fsd -- How Reliable Is It?
The Wikipedia article you cited has me believing I should consider EXT2 instead of EXT4. _________________ SimplyMEPIS is SimplyTHEBEST Mepis 8.5; 2.6.32-1-mepis-pae (Internal 2.6.32-12); 4GB RAM 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 4600+ NVidia GeForce 6150 LE; 304.51 Display Driver |
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:30 pm |
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Re: Ext2Fsd -- How Reliable Is It? _________________ Asus M4A87TD USB3 AMD 870 Socket AM3 Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz Quad Core GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe, nVidia TwinView Kingston 2G x 2 1333 DDR3 WD Caviar 500GB x 2 SATA hdd |
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:49 pm |
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Post # 298470
Re: Ext2Fsd -- How Reliable Is It? in addition to the ext3 info that UM posted, there's always NFS, SSH, samba, etc. if you need only intermittent access to the partition from windows
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:09 pm |
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MEPIS Guide  Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:05 pm Posts: 2207 Location: Pinellas Park, FL Has thanked: 62 times Have thanks: 1104 times
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Post # 298472
Re: Ext2Fsd -- How Reliable Is It? Well, the devs don't think it's ready for production systems yet. From the web site:
_________________ XFX Nforce 750 (built in GeForce 8300), Athlon X2 5000 Lenovo G550 , Intel T4400 , Intel Mobile 4 graphics |
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:32 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:45 pm Posts: 4871 Location: Penn's Woods Has thanked: 537 times Have thanks: 398 times
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Re: Ext2Fsd -- How Reliable Is It?
I think the other options you list apply to sharing folders on two different machines. My aim is to share entire partitions between different OSes on the same machine. In reading further on the ext2 Windows driver, it seems it allows you to access ext2 partitions from a file browser, but I'm not sure about accessing ext2 partitions from other applications, such as an e-mail client. For example, could Thunderbird access my e-mail on an ext2 partition from Windows? _________________ SimplyMEPIS is SimplyTHEBEST Mepis 8.5; 2.6.32-1-mepis-pae (Internal 2.6.32-12); 4GB RAM 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 4600+ NVidia GeForce 6150 LE; 304.51 Display Driver |
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| Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:23 am |
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