[TriLUG] dual boot and partition access

[Robert Dale]

This http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=23220 says
it does work in Win7.  However, it's pointed out that
http://www.ext2fsd.com/ is better.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, David Burton <ncdave4life at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, that reminds me of a question that came up the other day: does anyone
> know of a good ext2/3 driver for Windows 7?
>
> I'm using Stephan Schreiber's "IfsDrives" on XP, but I don't think it
> supports Win7:
> http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Kevin Hunter <hunteke at earlham.edu> wrote:
>
> ...will WinXP still be able to 'see', read/write to /linux-home partition as
>>> it currently can?
>>>
>>
>> To actually answer your question: as long as you do *not* use a filesystem
>> for which Windows does not have a driver, Windows will see no change.  Or,
>> put differently, if Windows can read/write to it now, and since you're
>> /only/ changing information in /etc on part1, Windows should have no clue
>> that you've done anything, short of random files that will appear and
>> disappear between Windows boots as you add and delete them while in Ubuntu.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> [1] http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows
>>
>>
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