Administrator Log » Linux http://www.administrator-log.com A blog for administrators and webmasters Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:10:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 de hourly 1 How to access linux file system under windows http://www.administrator-log.com/2008/06/26/how-to-access-linux-file-system-under-windows/ http://www.administrator-log.com/2008/06/26/how-to-access-linux-file-system-under-windows/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:16:48 +0000 admin http://www.administrator-log.com/2008/06/26/how-to-access-linux-file-system-under-windows/ I have on my computer both Linux and Windows Vista installed. It’s very convenient because I need both systems from time to time for certain purposes. However, because my data is stored on different partitions, I must constantly switch between the systems, if I need certain data. The reason for this problem lies in the fact that Linux and Windows systems are using different file systems. All current versions of Windows set on NTFS. Linux use mostly EXT3. I can access from Linux to NTFS partitions, but I can not write on NTFS. If I’m on Windows, I can’t read or write on EXT3 partition.
I tried to find a simple way to find a solution for this situation, how could I get access from Windows to Linux partition. After a short time, I found this solution.
There are at least two programs that gain an access to EXT3.
One of them is DiskInternals Linux Reader. This program works under Windows 2000 and above. It supports files that are larger than 2GB.
Another program is called Ext2 IFS for Windows. The author of it is Stephan Schreiber. It also works on all versions of Windows and works with files that are larger than 2 GB too.
Linux Reader is a very practical tool with a user-friendly GUI. This is a great for accessing data from Linux partitions. But if you need a write access, you will need Ext2 IFS for Windows. After the installation of Ext2 IFS, you can use linux drives as ordinary drives. They could be accessed as well as the Windows drives.
Actually, there is a possibility to get a read and write access between NTFS and EXT3. It is possible if you use a FAT32 file system. The problem of this solution is that this file system supports files that are not bigger then 4 GB.

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]]> http://www.administrator-log.com/2008/06/26/how-to-access-linux-file-system-under-windows/feed/ 0 NTFS and Linux… http://www.administrator-log.com/2007/05/02/ntfs-and-linux/ http://www.administrator-log.com/2007/05/02/ntfs-and-linux/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 15:01:23 +0000 admin http://www.administrator-log.com/2007/05/02/ntfs-and-linux%e2%80%a6/ Writing under Linux on NTFS file system was always a problem. In fact there are some solutions for this problem, but most of them are slow and unstable or commercial (not open source).

That’s why I would like to suggest you NTFS-3G Read/Write driver, because this software is open source, free and not very hard to install and setup. Moreover, this driver works pretty well, I could not detect any performance problems after installation.

NTFS-3G works with all of most popular Linux distributions, such es Debain, openSuSE, Knoppix, Kanotix, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware and others.

Here is the official page of NTFS-3G:

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

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