[TriLUG] dual boot and partition access

[David Burton]

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
>
>