You guys are kinda, um, oh never mind.
I just access my data in a read-only way on both Linux and ******* so as to be sure I don't mess anything up and I just use ext3 and NTFS.
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You guys are kinda, um, oh never mind.
I just access my data in a read-only way on both Linux and ******* so as to be sure I don't mess anything up and I just use ext3 and NTFS.
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In love.Originally Posted by detyabozhye
Use it. Dont. Whatever. Make up your mind for yourself. So far with 6 months of heavy read/write access on my 120gig Maxtor Ive had no problems. Yay me.
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Ooooookaaaaay! *backs away slowly* LOLIn love.
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Thanks for posting this thread! I used to have two drives for my data: a FAT32 one (Dand an ext3 one (/home). I was running out of space on my D: and had too much space on my /home.
I've just merged them and it's great now! Not only do I get a lot more space to play with in Windows, I can do things like install Quake 4 in Windows and reuse most of the files for the Linux install with a few symlinks.
Of course, it also means I won't be missing my music collection when I go to Windows and I won't have to mess around with explore2fs any more.
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*gives MetalMusicAddict a big sloppy kiss*In love.
Use it. Dont. Whatever. Make up your mind for yourself. So far with 6 months of heavy read/write access on my 120gig Maxtor Ive had no problems. Yay me.
I hope you won't have any problems with that in the future either, i'm just really suspicious of filesystem hacks.
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Right back at ya...Happy Holidays.
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BSDFreak: I wouldn't exactly say it's a filesystem hack. It's just an implementation of ext2 for Windows, which is just about as safe as an implementation of ext2 in Linux.
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It's an implementation of a filesystem to an OS that does not support it, it's the definition of a hack.
It's like hacking an implementation of IE6 into Linux, it's also a hack.
I forgot which user requested the updated WinHTTP though but i found a way to "implement" it into wine, you'll need to create a link so it won't check for size. Sometimes it's as easy as that.
MS includes (or used to anyway) drivers to allow windows access to novell and apple partitions. Is that a hack, too?
that said, see elsewhere in this forum someone now asking for help because his machine crashed while writing to his external 120gb ext2 drive (using this tool) and has become corrupt. Was the drive bad, leading to an indeterminate state that caused this third party kernel driver to crash windows? Or did windows crash, corrupting his ext2 filesystem in the process? It's impossible to say, but it should serve as fair warning.
Use whatever tools that provide the best value to the application - but never, ever trust your data to one hard drive. So long as you have backups any failure is recoverable.
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