Open Source Linux File Systems for Windows AlternativesFilesystem Utilities and other similar apps like Linux File Systems for Windows

The best open source alternative to Linux File Systems for Windows is ExtendFS. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Linux File Systems for Windows and seven of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Linux File Systems for Windows are WinBtrfs, HFSExplorer, Ext2Read (Ext2Explore) and Lustre.

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  1. ExtendFS icon
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    Open-source read-only ext2, ext3, and ext4 file system driver for macOS that uses FSKit, allowing you to access files from a drive formatted on a Linux computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2.  4 likes

    WinBtrfs is a Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs. A reimplementation from scratch, it contains no code from the Linux kernel, and should work on any version from Windows XP onwards. It is also included as part of the free operating system ReactOS.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. HFSExplorer icon
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    HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images.

    10 HFSExplorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports Linux LVM2. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file system images.

    10 Ext2Read (Ext2Explore) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Lustre is a massively parallel filesystem designed for high-performance, large-scale data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. XtreemFS icon
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    XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks. The file system replicates objects for fault tolerance and caches metadata and data to improve performance over high-latency links. SSL and X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Mounting 3rd-party filesystems on macOS has always been tricky. There's official support for reading NTFS but otherwise we've mainly used solutions based on macFUSE. We've got NTFS-3g which is a pretty mature driver but for Linux filesystems there's only a couple...

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