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matt-wu / Ext3Fsd

Ext2/3/4 file system driver for Windows
http://www.ext2fsd.com
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Is this project dead? Any alternative? #40

Open Kostanos opened 2 years ago

Kostanos commented 2 years ago

It looks like this project is dead. Any plans to renew work on it? If not, any alternative?

cuvtixo commented 2 years ago

Its not quite "dead", because it still works adequately, its functional. It's sort of undead. lol. There's little reason to update from the Windows perspective: NTFS is 28 years old, and Microsoft's 2012 "Resilient File System (ReFS)" never went anywhere, so... DiskInternals Linux Reader is proprietary, but free and reads EXT2/EXT3/EXT4, HFS, UFS2, Reiser4, and ReiserFS. You also might want to check out https://alternativeto.net/software/ext2fsd/ Paragon Software has an unfree solution, I've never tried it.

BlohoJo commented 2 years ago

There is also "DiskGenius" (non-free): https://www.diskgenius.com/how-to/ext4-windows.php

2play commented 1 year ago

Both paid option are fine. The Paragon latest version you can have a nice gui with auto mount and write options to ext3 On the DiskGenius you can also have the write but i prefer paragon interface and option to open in w explorer easily

The read only free is ok if you want to use it

The ext2fsd 0.68 is the best to use with software as OSFMOUNT

@matt-wu Could you please update the driver? I was testing linux batocera and in their wiki they state that driver is older and creates write errors when writing to their linux distro

I was teting the version 30 an even though ext2fsd had write access to the partition, after boot files copied were all disappeared. When back on PC it was there. When had both paragon and ext2fsd running to mount 2 diff partitions one to read and one to write it kept freezing my system

We all would appreciate if you can release a v0.70 with update linux driver. Its an awesome software you created. Also is the name will be ext3fsd as per git repository or a typo ? Kind regards, a great supporter of your work

rcmaehl commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/bobranten/Ext4Fsd

"implemented support for the new ext4 features metadata checksums and 64-bit blocknumbers in the ext2fsd project by Matt Wu."

Driver is unsigned however (don't blame them, driver signing is EXPENSIVE)

AndrewSav commented 7 months ago

Its not quite "dead", because it still works adequately, its functional. I have not seen any mention of windows 11 support, and I read a report that this is not working in windows 11.