Answers: linux - Tools to see ext2/ext3/ext4/btrfs/jfs/xfs filesystems under windows?

LanceBaynes

Are there any drivers/application that can read/write ext2/ext3/ext4/btrfs/jfs/xfs filesystems from Windows?

E.g.: a removable drive is formatted with EXT3.. how can I write it under Windows XP/7?

Community

You've got multiple tools for this :

RusAlex

Just for ext2/ext3 and ext4(only reading) ext2fsd

Features Ext2Fsd supports:
ext2/ext3 volume reading & writing
ext3 journal replay when mounting
various codepage: utf8, cp936, cp950 …
mountpoint automatical assignment
large inode size: 128, 256, …
large file size bigger than 4G
CIFS sharing over network
htree directory indexing
ext4 extent read-only, no  size truncating and expanding support
Fast fsck (uninit_bg) and group block checksum support
64k block-size, support compatible to Linux ext4 and e2fsprogs
OS: 2k, xp, vista, server 2003/2008, win7

File system format for both windows and linux use (besides fat32)

windows linux filesystems compatibility format

Dan

I'm looking for a file system to format my large external drive with that can read/write in linux and read/write in windows. I know Fat32 is usually the best suggestion, but a large percent of my files are >4GB, so Fat32 won't work. Are there any other ones out there that I can get to work?

Thanks

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