ext? as fat or ntfs?

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 10:52:20 MST 2009


This one was pretty easy, Mac still cant write ntfs... but i can read
now.. finally...

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Bob Elzer<bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with Ryan, if you want to see an ext2 or ext3 partition on M$, then
> you could have a small fat or ntfs with the ext2IFS
> http://www.fs-driver.org/ on it.
>
> You would have to install the ext2IFS software on each machine you wanted to
> see the partition though.
>
> I do remember way back getting CD's that had M$ and Mac software on them,
> you would only see the stuff for the system you were using. But I'm not sure
> how they did that.
> I think it came with the Jaz or Orb Drives.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
>> Behalf Of Ryan Rix
>> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:44 PM
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>> Subject: Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?
>>
>> On Fri 17 July 2009 6:32:17 pm der.hans wrote:
>> > moin moin,
>> >
>> > is it possible to setup a thumb drive with a large
>> > ext2/ext3/ext4/btrfs/xfs/jfs/reiserfs/whateverfs partition, but in
>> > such a way that when attached to an m$ box it'll show up as
>> some sort
>> > of fat or ntfs filesystem? Maybe have a small fat automount
>> partition
>> > with samba on it that can read and export the free software
>> filesystem?
>> >
>> > ciao,
>> >
>> > der.hans
>>
>> If you don't have admin rights, there's no way.
>> Outside of that, you could, mayhaps, use ext2IFS, with a lot
>> of hacking.
>>
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