ext2 support for Windoz

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Somewhere (might have been here) that there is an ext2 package for
> Windows. Checking Freshmeat there is Ext2fsNT. I was wondering if anyone
> has any experience with it, good or bad.

Back when I still used ext2 filesystems, I used explore2fs 
(http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm) successfully. 
It's a bit slow, but it works. It's an application.

Ext2fsNT (http://ashedel.chat.ru/ext2fsnt/), which you mentioned, is a 
file system driver; that is, it makes the ext2 volume look like a 
standard Windows volume in the Windows Explorer. I tried unsuccessfully 
to get it to work once, some time ago, but didn't spend a lot of time 
with it. Your mileage may vary.

There is another project, ext2fsd, developing a file system driver for 
ext2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd). There is also a port of 
e2fsprogs (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html) to Windows. I 
have no experience with either of these.