Writing to ext3 fs from XP

Hadders fedora at workingwithit.com
Mon Dec 4 09:34:28 UTC 2006


Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 16:49 +0800, Hadders wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>   Just wondering if anybody has had any experience of writing to an ext3 
>> partition within windows.
>>
>> If found this driver, http://www.fs-driver.org/ . Sound goods, but only 
>> has ext2 support.
>>
>> Does anybody know of anything similar for ext3?
>>
>> Why? Because I'm thinking of setting up a 120GB RAID 1 (mirror) and want 
>> to share the mirror between Windows and Linux for backups.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>     
>
> Why not use FAT32? Both Linux and Windows can use it. (...And *BSD and
> DOS and...)
> Plus, as you're using it for backups, you most likely don't need
> journaling/security/etc.
>
> - Gilboa
>
>   
Maximum file size is 4GB,  my "My Documents" directory in Windows is 
8GB, and I use the Windows Backup Utility, which isn't very sophisticated.

I suppose I could back it up to my NTFS volume, then zip/rar it as 4GB 
volumes...   also it seems silly to have that limitation, of 4GB.

You're right, I'm not worried about journaling etc, it's mirror...




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