graysky Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Is there any way XP can read/write to a LINUX ext4 partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 ext4? Great way to lose data Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graysky Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 ext4? Great way to lose data ...how do you figure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majormashup Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 do you need this as a long or short term solution?if it is short term I would run a small VM on vsl(very small linux) mount the physical drive and give it network sharing with write access using samba. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graysky Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 Interesting idea... I was hoping for a windows-native method though...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majormashup Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 hmmm... in that case I'm out of ideas, you can probably get away with only giving the afforementioned VM a minimal amount of resources if all else fails. I'll keep an eye on this thread as it sounds like quite a curious issue.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 ...how do you figure?The ext4 developer (Ted Tso) says so himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Read is one thing and Read/Write is another.Ext4 Fs is - up to a certain point - "forward compatible" with Ext2 and Ext3:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4and as such, ext2fsd should be able to Read it with no problems:http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/As well, "trivial" write operation such as updating a small text file should be possible, as well as copying one at the time files, I wouldn't set a paging file on a ext4 partition, nor use multithreaded apps to write to the filesystem.Basically you will access the ext4 as it was an ext2 FS:http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9449jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graysky Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the link but it's not ext4 that is to blame according to his writings. Users can fix this by adding a flag to their /etc/fstab entry for the affected partitions. (Can't find the link but if you're really interested, google it).UPDATE: it's the mballoc flag.See this link for more. Edited April 8, 2009 by graysky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 (fyi - your avatar doesn't show. suggest putting it in your MSFN profile instead of linking to it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 (fyi - your avatar doesn't show. suggest putting it in your MSFN profile instead of linking to it.)Yup. Looks like it's in a protected directory on the site: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now