Re: Access ext3 and the like from M$ Windows?

Well, first thanx a lot to all who answered so fast.
Well, yes i meant local access on the same machine, when the MS os is booted.
I think LTOOLS may be what can help me.

To the statement of Robert:

Microsoft has no incentive to write an ext2 driver, because they want it to remain as difficult as possible for the two systems to co-exist.
So... Who'd sit down and write such a driver? There's no advantage from either side of the fence.

Well, most of that is true. But it is my personal experience, that the lack of a really good working common FS inhibits people that are lesser techies to convert to Linux. I have known a lot ppl who tried to use linux and gave up. A big point is because it was too difficult to access their data from each other OS while they still do not really know how to use a unix system correctly. I just assumed, that it is knowingly difficult to write linux driver for the MS filesystems (i dont consider the exising vfat and ntfs drivers as 'good working'), it should be a lot easier to write MS driver for the Lin filesystems. But i agree, the ppl who usually write drivers may have no interest at all in writing MS code.

Well, thanks for the links, though.

Thomas

David Jackson schrieb:

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:03:19AM -0800, David Jackson penned with great
insight:

Thomas --
Do you mean access a Linux parition on the same box M$ is running on?
It seems to me if there used to me a ready only tool that let you do
that?
Have you tried looking on http://freshmeat.net?

Of couse if your mean located on a different box then the answer is
samba?

David

Okay, yes I'm a moron.

We ALL got to a little "touched in the head" to get involved with *nix :)
Anyway a quick search on http:/fresmeat.net for "dos filesystem" came up
with:
LTOOLS: The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools for reading and writing
Linux ReiserFS, ext2, and ext3 filesystems from DOS, Windows, Solaris, or
Linux.

Here's the freshmeat link:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ltools/?topic_id=860%2C861

And home page:
http://www.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.html

Your might also search http://sf.net (sourceforge.net)

David