Well, i dont know if this is exactly what you want, but the tool explore2fs
allows reading (and experimental writing i believe) of ext2 and ext3
filesystems from windows. If all you need is read-access to grab audio and
stuff, then that should work for you. I have my laptop dualbooted and
sometimes I need some files from my linux partition when im in windows (yuk)
so I just use that to grab what I need. If youre going to do this a lot,
you might want to look around some more because it isnt very fast to browse
the drive.
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norbert Cartagena" <gnorb@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:18 PM
Subject: [SLUG] 3 hard drives and a file system
> Hey guys;
>
> Well, as you might remember from an earlier post, I'm building a new
> system. This system is really intended for software testing, so what
> I've decided to do is to incorporate 3 hard drives (A, B, C). Hard drive
> A would be my "main" program hard drive, meant to hold general data and
> software installations (this is where my OS would be installed). Drive B
> is what I call a "beat up" drive - specifically meant for software
> testing. The third hard drive, C, will be used for long term infromation
> storage (ie. MP3's, OGG's, MPG's, DivX's, archived e-mail...).
>
> Now, that we have that covered, let me give you the scenario: A and B
> would both be swappable drives. That way, I can test all the OS's and
> software I want to withough ruining my personal programs. C would also
> be in a swappable chasis, but only extracted in cases where whatever I'm
> testing mignt concievably destroy its contens. Essentially, no matter
> what Hard Drive I use (A or B), all my "stuff" would still be available
> to me (via C).
>
> Now that this is over with, here is my question:
>
> I'm wondering what file system I should make C. After all, in A I will
> be installing both Linux and Windows (which I need for my job). I
> preffer to have a journaled file system (prefferably ReiserFS), but from
> what I've seen, it looks like FAT32 is about the only thing which is
> commonly read between Windows and Linux. Is there a free or inexpensive
> tool which I can use on Windows which will allow me to read a Journaled
> Linux file system?
>
> In case you're interested, here are the specs on the drives. All are
> Western Digital drives. Both A and C are 40 gig drives (Linux/WIndows
> will be 50/50 - games take alot of space), while drive B is simply a 10
> gig drive to be used for software testing.
>
> Thanks in advance. Any conversation which spawns off of this, in
> addition to the answer, is greatly appreciated.
>
> Gnorb
>
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