Re: EXT2 and Windows: WAS Re: FC5 fails to boot after install

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Mike McCarty wrote:
Dan wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:

dpeck wrote:

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But you *can* boot the Fedora rescuecd, and you can also use the
install disc, but with rescue on the boot command line.

You can also install the ext2 driver at http://www.fs-driver.org . It doesn't support ext3 journaling, but can still read it fine, and can write to it without the journaling. If you don't have any specific

This is good information to have. I'm going to salt this away...

reason to write to your linux partitions, I'd just leave the write support off, since Windows can muck up the filesystems, especially if it

Erm? Every OS can muck up a filesystem, especially when it crashes.
Is there a particular issue known when using this driver? Or what?
What are you warning against?

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Mike
I'm just saying that Windows, like Linux, can leave the ext2 filesystem in an unstable state if it is modifying it and crashes. So the next time you boot Linux it's going to fsck it, and you might have to manually fsck it. And since it can't do ext3 journaling, the same thing happens there.
-Dan


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