Foreign ext2fs Support
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.
DOS ext2fs Access Tools
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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