Hi all,
I have vista and opensuse 11.2 on my computer, the problem is i can’t open ext3 partitions from vista but i can the other way.
I tried Ext2fsd but the linux partition is always in a read only mood even when i change this option. Also, all folders are empty :S
I downloaded the program as admin and compatable with XP SP2.
Please help me in this issue
Thanks,
Devox
Best to leave data exchange one-way, ie. keep all your important data on the NTFS partition for Vista until you’re ready to go cold turkey and abandon dual-booting. If you want to be able to use an ext3/4 partition for all your data, run Vista as a VM from Virtualbox and make /home your shared folder.
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Ask microsoft why they cannot support a dozen filesystems like everybody
else can. If they try to upsell you to windows 7 make sure you ask them
if it supports filesystems that everybody else does out of the box (it
doesn’t).
In the meantime what files are you hoping to share? Most data on most
computers do not need to be shared (OS files, application files, etc.) and
if you are sharing documents/music/movies you can do that easily enough
with file sharing protocols (if both boxes are up at the same time) or by
keeping your data on a FAT32-formatted drive which bosh OS’s can use
natively. NTFS is also an option since the Linux gurus have made read and
write work for the closed-source filesystem too via the ntfs-3g
project/code (even though microsoft can’t make open source
interoperability work… lots of irony).
In the past I have had a windows XP VM which I used when required by my
profession and suspending/resuming that with VirtualBox has been quick and
painless, and it let me keep all my data where I wanted it and still share
it easily with the VM when needed.
Good luck.
devox wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have vista and opensuse 11.2 on my computer, the problem is i can’t
> open ext3 partitions from vista but i can the other way.
> I tried Ext2fsd but the linux partition is always in a read only mood
> even when i change this option. Also, all folders are empty :S
> I downloaded the program as admin and compatable with XP SP2.
>
> Please help me in this issue
>
> Thanks,
> Devox
>
>
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There are ways for doing this. You may wish to take a look at:
Access to Ext2/Ext3 from Windows XP
When I needed to do it some time ago from XP, I used something else, but could not find that one. In general I feel read is safe, but get concerned about writing.