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Ext2Fsd

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Ext2Fsd is an ext2 file system driver for Windows (2k, XP, Vista and Win7). It’s a free software. Anyone can modify or distribute it under GPL2.

Manager application for assigning drive letters to EXT partitions

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  • Windows
Discontinued

No updates in over 2 years. See http://www.ext2fsd.com/

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    Open Source and Free product.
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    Average rating of 3.3
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    9 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  37 Open Issues
  •   Updated Oct 27, 2019 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Ext2Fsd, and it has gotten 41 likes

Ext2Fsd was added to AlternativeTo by CaptainHindsight on Oct 13, 2011 and this page was last updated Sep 9, 2022.

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Top Positive Comment
starcrescent
Nov 5, 2023
0

This filesystem driver will not read your Linux partition if it is formated as 64-bit filesystem (As almost all distro installers do nowadays) unless you convert it to 32-bit filesystem with resize2fs -s command. 32-bit filesystem has 16TB partition limit if you have those new hard disks greater than 16TB then you have to make multiple partitions. It seams that it is not actively developed anymore.

Top Negative Comment
DL300
Jan 8, 2022
-1

Outright does not work; as in this application does literally nothing. It changes nothing. It does not function.

luminex
Jan 29, 2017
-1

Tried Ext2Fsd on fully up to date windows 10 and I won't recommend this app. It works, but its driver or service causes conflicts with windows drivers. Especially freezes NVidia drivers and makes system shutdown take a long time.

AntumDeluge
Jan 3, 2018

Just tried this myself. Win10 seems to be very stingy about enforcing driver digital signatures. There is a post here about manually mounting, but seems like it would be a hassle. Haven't tried it myself. If you only need read support, I've found that Ext2Read (Ext2Explore) icon Ext2Read (Ext2Explore) still works in Win10, even though development has ceased.

drpeppercan
Jan 4, 2017
0

The only reviews I found were from 2013, and not exactly very motivating. So I'm hoping things are looking better by now.

Seth
Nov 22, 2012
0

I use this program so I can share an ext3 formatted TrueCrypt volume on an external drive between Windows and Linux clients. It works great. The volume manager utility will not see the TrueCrypt drive but the Windows filesystem driver allow me to view and access files on the ext3 partition just fine.

What is Ext2Fsd?

Ext2Fsd is an ext2 file system driver for Windows (2k, XP, Vista and Win7). It’s a free software. Anyone can modify or distribute it under GPL2.

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

Features Ext2Fsd doesn’t support:

fully ext3 journal support ext4 extent support LVM and Linux raid (md) NT4 is no longer supported.

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