Comments on: Ext3 File Systems in Windows

By: Ext3 File System on Windows - Ext3 Ext4 Tutorial

Ext3 File System on Windows - Ext3 Ext4 Tutorial — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:17:57 +0000

[...] Here is a good tutorial show you about Ext3 File System on Windows: Ext2Fsd is an open source driver for Ext file systems that works in many versions of Windows. The “Ext2 Volume Manager” allows mount points to be set. I right clicked on my home partition and clicked mount. It was then mounted it to the L drive letter. However, Windows saw the file system type as raw and offered to format it. Ext2Fsd did not work at all for me. [...]

By: Paul McEnery

Paul McEnery — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:25:35 +0000

@Best Bitter@

I had this problem and discovered that the issue was; the ext3 filesystem had exceeded the maximal mount count. Mount the filesystem under Linux with Truecrypt and take a look at dmesg output. Also, tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/truecrypt1 (assuming this is what the loop device was setup as).

I gave it an fsck (e2fsck -y /dev/mapper/truecrypt1) and upped the maximal mount count from the 27 default (ubuntu karmic back then) to 100 (tune2fs -c 100 /dev/mapper/truecrypt1).

Plugged it into windows (XP SP3), mounted up in truecrypt 7.0a (IFS 1.11a), and all is working correctly.

Just thought I’d post this to help any hapless souls in future…

By: Best Bitter

Best Bitter — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:18:15 +0000

I’v just installed Ext2 IFS 1.11a in Windows XP but all I seem to be able to do is look at the drive (an external usb HDD). I can also see the drive in My Computer but clicking on it merely brings up a dialog box asking if I want to format the drive, which I do not as it has data on it I wish to access.Tthere is clearly something I should be doing but cannot establish what this should be. Does anyone know?

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:04:47 +0000

any chance to get the ext2/3/4 FS under windows but with keeping the file names sensitivity?
I need to have in one dir a lot of files with same names but different capitalization

By: panel anten

panel anten — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:16:26 +0000

is there a way to format ext3 a HDD on windows XP ?

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:58:35 +0000

DiskInternals Linux Reader nor IFS work for me. Linux Reader says it has mounted the partition. I still can’t access it then, outside or inside Linux Reader. With Ext2IFS I get a “Local Drive” that Windows wants to format. Otherwise it’s useless.
Any other suggestions ?

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:05:35 +0000

Seems like it’s fixed now!

From the changelog for ext2ifs 1.11a:

Bug fixed that caused a blue screen when the Ext2 IFS 1.11 software was used together with the Truecrypt disk encryption software.

http://www.fs-driver.org/extendeddl.html

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:57:11 +0000

hi,
I installed ext2ifs 1.11 onto vista and worked fine reading/writing Linux partition at drive L:

however, this worked only once. next time I tried (maybe after reboot, I don’t remember) I still see drive L: but clicking only prompts to format the driver. Never got out of this again. Reinstalling ext2ifs and rebooting changed nothing. any ideas?

By: luck99

luck99 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:02:57 +0000

http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html

By: kija

kija — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:27:03 +0000

I had the same problem BSOD in windows xp sp3 but i updated to ext2ifs 1.11a and true crypt 6.1 it works now.