[TriLUG] ext3 driver for dual-boot shared files?

[Robert Dale]

I ran the ext2 fs-driver.org driver for two years without any
problems.  I was sharing 40GB of music, photos, documents, etc
primarily so that I could listen to music and import photos from my
camera if I happened to be in windows.  I've migrated windows to
Virtualbox and don't really need to share any more.  If I did, I would
use Virtualbox's local folder sharing instead.

-- 
Robert Dale

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Brian Henning<lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com> wrote:
> Ah crap, I meant "ext2fsd"
>
> ~B
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Henning [mailto:lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 4:13 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] ext3 driver for dual-boot shared files?
>
>
> google for "ext2fs"
>
> ~B
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Tom Roche
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 4:06 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] ext3 driver for dual-boot shared files?
>
>
>
> summary: I spend most of my desktop time in linux, but must sometimes
> use winxp. I currently keep sharable files in NTFS and mount that from
> xubuntu, but have lost data. Would keeping the sharable files in ext3
> and accessing them from winxp with an ext3 driver work better? or
> should I try something completely different?
>
> details:
>
> I have used win* and cygwin forever, but recently switched to linux on
> my daily-use TP, which had winxp preinstalled. I merely created
> partitions in its freespace and installed xubuntu. I still must goto
> winxp occasionally, notably for ArcGIS and the TP's ThinkVantage
> utilities (neither of which appears to be available for linux), so I
> left most of the data files on an NTFS partition, and mounted that
> from xubuntu. This has worked pretty well for sharing applications
> that I want on both sides (notably emacs and firefox).
>
> ... until today, when, on switching to winxp, it chkdsk'ed and blew
> away some shared files. Some I didn't care about, some were in
> c:\found*, some I restored from my weekly backup, but others are just
> gone. So now I'm thinking about alternatives, e.g.  keeping the
> shareable files on an ext3 partition, and installing an ext3 driver
> (e.g. from fs-driver.org) on winxp. This seems sensible given that I
> mostly access these files from linux, and might also make my
> rsync-based backup easier.
>
> Has any one done this? If so, how did it work? Are there preferred
> alternative drivers? Or should I be thinking about something
> completely different.
>
> TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
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