which is better: mount an ext3 disk from windows, or write anNTFS disk from Linux?
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From: Denis McMahon on 2 Jun 2010 02:04 On 02/06/10 02:51, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > I have some data on an ext3 file system. I want to use this data when I > am on my windows PC also. I use vfat / fat32 formatted disks for this. Rgds Denis McMahon
From: David Brown on 2 Jun 2010 04:02
On 02/06/2010 03:51, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > Hello; > > Which you think would be better: > > I have some data on an ext3 file system. I want to use this data when I > am on my windows PC also. > > > I could do one of the the following: > > 1. Since linux support NTFS writing these days, I can create an NTFS > disk, and copy the data to it while I am on linux. Then boot to windows > and access this disk (it is USB disk), so I can read it from that disk > to my windows disk. > > 2. Leave the data in the ext3 USB disk, and use some utilities I saw on > the net which is suppose to allow one to mount ext3 disk on windows. > > Then from windows, read the data out from ext3 to a windows disk. Such > tools I saw in this article in Linux Journal > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9449 (3 years old). and googling > around there seem to be other tools. > > What is the more reliable way? on windows, I will be just > reading/copying the data from ext3 disk, not writing back to ext3 disk. > > I think option 1 is the easiest and may be safest? > > thanks > --Nasser > If you want to share simple data between Windows and Linux using a shared disk, vfat (FAT32) is the simplest and will work reliably. It doesn't have the features of NTFS or extX such as ownership, time details, links, etc., but these don't translate well between windows and linux anyway. A better option if the machines are on a network is to use a common network share (samba on Linux). |