EXT2 and Windows: WAS Re: FC5 fails to boot after install

[Mike McCarty]

Dan wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> dpeck wrote:

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>> But you *can* boot the Fedora rescuecd, and you can also use the
>> install disc, but with rescue on the boot command line.
>>
> You can also install the ext2 driver at http://www.fs-driver.org . It 
> doesn't support ext3 journaling, but can still read it fine, and can 
> write to it without the journaling. If you don't have any specific 

This is good information to have. I'm going to salt this away...

> reason to write to your linux partitions, I'd just leave the write 
> support off, since Windows can muck up the filesystems, especially if it 

Erm? Every OS can muck up a filesystem, especially when it crashes.
Is there a particular issue known when using this driver? Or what?
What are you warning against?

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Mike
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