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Access Linux Filesystem in Windows
In one of my Previous articles I have shown you “How to mount Foreign filesystem in Linux” . In case of Linux you already have all the interface defined to access the foreign partitions like fat32, ntfs etc. But in window there are no interface present to access the Linux partitions. So today I will show you how to access Linux Filesystem in windows.
Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.
If you are using dual boot systems or laptops this tool is very useful tool for you. If you want to access your linux data from windows in one click. This can be used on windows based dual boot systems like windows and debian, ubuntu, gentoo, redhat..etc
Different Features of Explore2fs are:
- Reads ext2
- Reads ext3
- Drag & Drop
- 1.44Meg Floppy Disk Support
- LS120 Floppy Disk Support
- ZIP & Jazz Disk Support
- USB & CF Disk Support
- CDROM Support
- Supports Windows 98 extended partition scheme
- Export files as binary
- Export files as text
- Export directory
- View/Execute file
- Large disk support
- Large file support
- LVM2
- ReiserFS Detection
- Unicode UTF8 support
- Preserve time stamps on export
Download Explore2fs
First you need to download Explore2fs latest version from here
Now to see the linux partitions you need to double click on penguin icon. I have downloded this to my laptop which has windows xp and ubuntu linux installed and you should see in the following screen my ubuntu linux partitons hda3,hda4.
If you want to see /etc files in my ubuntu linux partiton you can access like windows explorer and you can see the list of files in the following screen
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