[Cialug] ext3 support under Windows (was: GNOME partition Editor)

[David Champion]

Nathan Stien wrote:
> On 3/14/07, Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Also, I have a windows partition on my computer, but I have the bare
>> minimum allocated to it (weelll, something like 15G). Then, in XP I've
>> installed the ext2/ext3 ifs driver for Windows and mount my /home
>> partition as a drive letter. This allows me to access all my important
>> files in either OS. Admittedly, I spend maybe 2 hours in Windows a
>> month, so I've set this up to be more convenient from Linux than
>> Windows. However, I've also tried the opposite, storing Linux data on
>> NTFS and it doesn't work nearly as well as using ext3 in Win.
> 
> I used to do a lot more dual booting (e.g., I used to play games on
> WinXP), but last time I tried it (few years ago), the ext2/ext3
> drivers for windows were pretty unstable for me.  And so far I've
> always felt NTFS write support under Linux to be a risk at best, so I
> ended up with a wasteful VFAT partition for transferring files from
> Linux to the Windows side of things.
> 
> I take it from your commentary here that the win32 ext3 drivers are
> working out well for you?  Do you _really_ trust it, or do you perhaps
> end up doing tune2fs for some extra fscks just to be safe?  ;-)
> 

I usually do the same thing... using a shared FAT32 partition on 
dual-boot machines, because I don't really trust the NTFS read / write 
stuff in Linux.

At home I have a samba mount on my server that I can use whether I'm in 
Windows or Linux, and use it the same way.

-dc