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How do I read a Fedora partition from windows?

Windows recognizes and gives my Fedora partition a drive letter, but shows it blank. Is there a way to get windows to read the ext3 filesystem? This is a Fedora 10 partition.

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I would look at EXT2 IFS for Windows .

A few things to keep in mind this.



  • Ext3 is backward compatible with Ext2, it just doesn't log
  • NTFS is case insensitive, it might be up to you depending on what you're moving around.
  • Some filenames that are valid in Ext2 / 3 are invalid in NTFS / VFAT like: and $
  • Special files will not be available, sockets, soft links, blocking devices
  • Permissions not supported
  • Will not work with LVM volumes

This will allow you to read and write to it though;)

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See answers to my similar question on ServerFault.com:



A summary of the best answer I received (and other answers were later removed, I assume by the authors): Use ntfs-3g to access NTFS filesystem from Linux. You will be much less likely to damage your filesystem than any of the existing ext2 / 3 drivers from Windows.

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I know you want to mount a Fedora partition, but I've found from experience that the best way to partition a partition with Windows is to format as NTFS and use ntfs-3g to access it on Linux.

I tried using the ext2 Windows app mentioned by JensenDied a couple of years ago and ended up having problems accessing data on the USB stick it was using it with.

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