Mike McCarty wrote:
Dan wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
dpeck wrote:
[snip]
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?
[snip]
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
