March 2000
Beginner to intermediate
672 pages
20h 8m
English
Thanks to Linux's open source nature, the Linux ext2fs drivers have migrated onto several other platforms. Despite the ready availability of authoritative read/write ext2fs source code, however, many of these implementations remain read-only because interfacing the Linux driver code to foreign OSs provides an opportunity for the introduction of serious bugs.
Two DOS tools provide read-only access to Linux ext2fs partitions: ext2tools and lread. ext2tools hasn't been modified since 1996, but lread is being maintained. As access tools, these programs don't provide DOS programs with direct access to the ext2fs partition; you must copy files from ext2fs using the tool, and then use the copied file ...
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