{"id":464,"date":"2008-08-03T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/464"},"modified":"2008-08-03T17:47:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T16:47:44","slug":"mount-linux-file-system-on-windows-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/464","title":{"rendered":"Mount Linux file system on Windows operating systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am dual booting between Ubuntu and Windows Vista on my desktop workstation I am missing my linux volumes on Vista. I have three large 500GB SATA2 disks and one of them is partitioned and formatted with Ext2 linux file system. I have two options to read my linux volumes from windows:<\/p>\n<p>a) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrysocome.net\/explore2fs\" target=\"_blank\">Explore2fs<\/a> which is a simple tool and I don&#8217;t need to install any low level system drivers. Explore2fs only operates in Read-Only mode.     <br \/>b) <a href=\"www.fs-driver.org\" target=\"_blank\">Ext2IFS<\/a> which is a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows NT\/2000\/XP\/Vista (x86\/x64) operating system to include the Ext2 file system.<\/p>\n<p>I want to have full read-write mode on my linux volumes and I installed option b.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to <a title=\"http:\/\/www.fs-driver.org\/download.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fs-driver.org\/download.html\">http:\/\/www.fs-driver.org\/download.html<\/a> and download <a title=\"Ext2IFS_1_11.exe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fs-driver.org\/download\/Ext2IFS_1_11.exe\">Ext2IFS_1_11.exe<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Run the setup file and walk though the installation wizards. <\/li>\n<li>In the Drive Letters Wizard choose your linux partition and assign a drive letter. I used drive L: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"368\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/MountLinuxfilesystemonWindowsoperatingsy_108C2\/image.png\" width=\"490\" border=\"0\" \/>&#160; <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"368\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/MountLinuxfilesystemonWindowsoperatingsy_108C2\/image_3.png\" width=\"490\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Drive L:\\ is now mounted in READ\/Write mode from my Windows Vista SP1 x64 operating system.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"122\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/MountLinuxfilesystemonWindowsoperatingsy_108C2\/image_4.png\" width=\"585\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am dual booting between Ubuntu and Windows Vista on my desktop workstation I am missing my linux volumes on Vista. I have three large 500GB SATA2 disks and one of them is partitioned and formatted with Ext2 linux file system. I have two options to read my linux volumes from windows: a) Explore2fs which is a simple tool and I don&#8217;t need to install any low level system drivers. Explore2fs only operates in Read-Only mode. b) Ext2IFS which is a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows NT\/2000\/XP\/Vista (x86\/x64) operating system to include the Ext2 file system. I want to have full read-write mode on my linux volumes and I installed option b. Go to http:\/\/www.fs-driver.org\/download.html and download Ext2IFS_1_11.exe Run the setup file and walk though the installation wizards. In the Drive Letters Wizard choose your linux partition and assign a drive letter. I used drive L: &#160; Drive L:\\ is now mounted in READ\/Write mode from my Windows Vista SP1 x64 operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[438,254,147,394,436,437,782],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-ext2","tag-file","tag-howto","tag-linux","tag-mount","tag-system","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}