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Accessing ext2/ext3 File System from Windows

Although Linux does support read/write files on FAT32 partition, I always format my Windows partition using NTFS, so I ended up having to create a FAT32 partition to share files between Windows and Linux. And that wastes quite a lot of my harddrive space.

However, today I was reading blog archives at Poonlap's Linux Blog and found a very interesting entry about IFS (Installable File System) for Windows. This is just what I have been looking for -- the way to read/write files on Linux (ext2/ext3) partition when I work in Windows without having to shut down Windows and boot into Linux.

Now I am just hoping that some day Linux would fully support writing files on NTFS partition (or maybe WinFS that will come with Windows Vista?) :)

posted by kong @ 10:26 PM