ext2 support for Windoz

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
"Mark J. Dulcey" <mark at buttery.org> wrote:

> Most of the time, mount will automagically figure it out. Most USB
> flash drives use FAT16 file systems (the Win95, etc long filename
> extensions -- VFAT in Linux-speak -- work too); that's how they come
> from the factory, so unless Buffalo reformats it, that will be what is
> there.
> 
> Once you know what kind of filesystem is there, you can use an
> appropriate program on Windows to open it (if one exists). People on
> the list have already mentioned programs for ext2 filesystems; those
> will also work for ext3, but writing to the filesystem will make the
> journal invalid. For reiserfs, there are rfstool
> (http://p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html) and YAReG
> (http://yareg.akucom.de/); they are read-only tools.
> 
> The filesystem may not be the only issue, though. Even if you get the 
> files themselves off the Buffalo device, they may not be in a form
> that is readily usable by anything else.
No, the file system is a native Linux file system, not a Windows file
system. Again, I don't think he wants to write to it. While the USB
drive can be used separately, it is managed by the Buffalo system. I
gave him a Knoppix 3.4 CD so he can check it out himself. 

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20041002/a6f4f565/attachment.sig>