ext3 write support from XP

MrJoshua · 04-03-2004, 10:06 AM

I was looking around the internet, and searched through these forums to see if anyone knows howto get ext3 write support for XP. Basically my home machine is running FC1 for the main OS, and I dual boot with XP so that I can game as well. I keep my hdb (storage) as ext3, and I would like for XP to be able to write to this as well.

trickykid · 04-03-2004, 10:40 AM

XP or Windows doesn't support ext3 and many other filesystem formats. There might be third party applications that might work but if you want to share a partition between Windows and Linux, you usually better off formatting it as FAT32.

michaelk · 04-03-2004, 11:25 AM

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

Not sure how well it works for ext3.

As been previously stated a FAT32 partition is bast for sharing data between windows and linux.