Ext2FSD.EXE is a Windows program not a Linux program. Using EXT2FSD.EXE you can make it mount a ext4 partition and access it directly, as K:, G:, or whatever when you are running EXT2FSD.EXE in Windows. AFAIK, EXT2FSD.EXE is the only Windows program that can mount and directly access Linux ext4 partitions.
Can’t address your kwalletmanager and NTFS problem.
You made it clear. The only problem is that I still need windows 
(eg. photoshop and microsoft office for compatability). Virtual MAchines inside linux do not work that well.
Pehaps this is what I will try in my new setup. Having all my /home directories in ext4 and mount them at start up in windows as a hard disk eg. G: Then I will tell windows that my documetns directory is in G:\My Documents.
Let’s hope that this will create less problems to windows application that want to write into ntfs filesystem (Which I doubt)
Regards
Alex
On 03/10/2011 04:06 PM, alaios wrote:
> You made it clear. The only problem is that I still need windows 
> (eg. photoshop and microsoft office for compatability). Virtual MAchines
> inside linux do not work that well.
use what works…
i’m not saying not to use Windows for those thing which you need it for!
i am saying do NOT let Windows touch your Linux file system…
if you have files on your Linux partitions which you need to access
from Windows, then while in Linux copy those files TO a Windows file
system, but do NOT let Windows directly access them ON your Linux file
system…see the difference?
if you let Windows touch your Linux files, you WILL have problems
sooner or later (more likely sooner than later)…
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On 03/10/2011 04:06 PM, alaios wrote:
>
> Pehaps this is what I will try in my new setup. Having all my /home
> directories in ext4 and mount them at start up in windows as a hard disk
be sure and take daily backups…because sooner or later Windows will
corrupt your Linux file system…
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to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
One more question.
I have an external hard disk (is an old sata 500Gb hard disk that connects through a sata to usb cable)
I want to use this hard disk for taking backups for my Linux and Windows filesystem.
1)What is the filesystem Linux “suggests” to use for external usb flash disks(1GB-64GB), and external hard disks (250Gb-2Tb)?
2) Can I try to write into that hard disk in windows by using the EXT2FDS to mount it my system?
Best Regards
Alex
Just create two partitions on your hard disk, one NTFS for Windows and one ext4 for Linux. This is by far the best thing to do. If you want to do backups, you should go the safest way, don’t you think?
#1 IMHO, this topic should really have been in Chit-Chat. Anyway…
IIRC, (or at least most of us) use the 1st partition and primary partition for Windows. I make my 2nd partition an extended partition for additional partitions (Linux and Windows).
If you have an external USB/SATA drive, I would format it NTFS to make it easier for Windows.
Linux can mount the external NTFS r/w and Windows wouldn’t have any problems.
As for EXT2FSD, my caveat is that when I’m in Linux I copy very large files from Windows to Linux, and vice versus when in Windows.
Its rare when I need to copy files between systems or modify files in the other system, mostly when I’m trying to eliminate duplicates.
Cross platform applications may not be exactly the same, for instance addons for Windows Thunderbird probably won’t work in Thunderbird for Linux.
However, a plain vanilla Thunderbird might work and I the basic email functions should work.
I use Linux/ Windows dual boot for many years.
I install a email client (Thunder bird ) in BOTH systems. I always set as POP 3 with copy left on server (ultimate reserve is web mail if house burns with external back ups lost) and always send copy to myself. All incoming mail is downloaded to both systems separately , sent mail to myself filtered to sent mail box.
Works well. I can answer mail from any system I am in at any time.
Also all documents *saved8 from Open Office on both systems as Win 97/2003 files so no problem with sending to other Win users.
Duplicates mail files, but system integrity is preserved.
My documents on Windows can be read by Linux and as noted by other ALWAYS copy to Linux side before editing resaving or other work.
Extra hard disc space lost to the duplicate mail systems but that is cost of stability.
@Eionmac
Thank you so much, it’s a great setup, something one needs to handle volume mail. I don’t get that much volume that I need to immediately answer.
I also have that for a couple of accounts set on Windows using IMAP but as I wrote I no longer use them.
@Alaios
Eionmac has a great solution for you, wish I’d thought more about it and suggested it myself.
You install your email client on both systems, but leave the email messages on the server.
Both systems would be relatively in sync and you can clean out your online mail folders
when you want. You’d have your email client installed twice with separate .mozilla configurations and addons are not affected and your online email servers would store your email.
Thank you very much all. I think all this thread contains really detailed information for users intresting in dual boot systems.
Eionmac’s idea is really good but not appliable in my case as I do not have unlimited space in my email server.
Regards
Alex