OFF-TOPIC: Fedora 7 already installed, can't install XP on empty partition [SOLVED]
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Tue Aug 14 00:28:34 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 16:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:25:16 -0700
> Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, sort of. Windows will ignore Linux--don't expect it to read or
> > even acknowledge the presence of Linux partitions.
>
> Actually, there is a ext2 driver for windows that can let you mount
> your ext2 and ext3 filesystems (but you don't get journaling on
> ext3). Seems to work well - I've used it when dual booting to get
> access to linux from windows (and ntfs-3g works the other way round).
Ah, yes, but is that ext2/ext3 driver from Microsoft? I doubt it.
I've not really played with ntfs-3g yet. I hear it works better than
the old ntfs module.
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