At long last, a working extent-friendly ext4 driver for Windows.

[Starks]

Ext2fsd-0.48-bb8 (Support for ext4 extents and fix for BSOD on Windows 7.)

My Windows 7 partition suddenly became more valuable.

Be sure to follow the readme.

[Starks]

Really? Nobody cares?

[blueturtl]

I actually consider it safer for Windows to remain oblivious to any other operating systems on the same hard-drive or machine. That way you can be sure nothing bad that happens in Windows can ever touch your Linux install.

[miggols99]

I actually consider it safer for Windows to remain oblivious to any other operating systems on the same hard-drive or machine. That way you can be sure nothing bad that happens in Windows can ever touch your Linux install.

+1

I really hate it when Windows creates those thumb.db files everywhere! That's why I don't like Windows getting access to Linux...

[MooseDog]

thx for sharing link, i'll look into it!

i have to agree, certainky makes windows more useful, a little bit at least.

agree also that giving windows knowledge about anything else but itself is a threat to others (lord knows win has a hard enough time dealing with its own problems), but i've solved that by always putting the two installs on two different drives, never! on one single one.

[Lucradia]

+1

i really hate it when windows creates those thumb.db files everywhere! That's why i don't like windows getting access to linux...

qft

[zekopeko]

+1

I really hate it when Windows creates those thumb.db files everywhere! That's why I don't like Windows getting access to Linux...

http://www.tweakxp.com/article36702.aspx

Easy fix.

[CarpKing]

Interesting. I was wondering when something like this would come about. Last I heard, the ext3 driver worked by pretending the partition was ext2, which never seemed like the safest proposition.

On my desktop I have my shared partition as ext3 because when I set it up ntfs write support was shaky, but I was thinking about moving it to ntfs sometime just so I wasn't depending on ext2fs. That's how I have my laptop set up.

Is there a btrfs driver for windows in the works? :3

[CharlesA]

Got a homepage instead of just a download link?

[Lucradia]

http://www.tweakxp.com/article36702.aspx

Easy fix.

Windows 7: gpedit.msc doesn't exist; nor does Control Panel > Folder Options > View > "Do not cache thumbnails"

As Windows Vista and higher force you to turn off thumbnails in order not to cache them.