#ext2fsd

Como um usuário de Linux e Windows em dualboot, você consegue acessar arquivos do Windows pelo Linux. Por outro lado, tentar acessar arquivos do Linux pelo Windows não é tão fácil. Isso acontece porque os sistemas de arquivos do Linux e do Windows são configurados de maneira diferente. Assim, o objetivo deste artigo é recomendar 4 ferramentas para você acessar o sistema de arquivos do Linux pelo…

A big reminder to myself not to run disk checks/repairs on a glitchy hdd before attempting absolutely everything to get the files off.  RIP lossless, extended Escaflowne movie ost.

A detailed account in hopes that I don’t forget: I had a large EXT4 HDD disappear off my Rpi nas (lol, so l337).  Restarted a couple times with no change.  Plugged in the drive after a bootup and got an error saying that the mount point was already taken.  Remove the drive from fstab and the error persists, but oddly enough the drive still shows up in the file manager, albeit devoid of content.

Enter command line, where accessing the directory straight up tells me there’s read/write errors.  Dmesg barely elaborates by saying there’s a “medium critical” error, and everything online says to run e2fsck to fix the errors.  Well, attempting a safe run with e2fsck couldn’t complete, so I just had to say “y” to everything and now I have thousands of unnamed files to sort through. What I wish I knew was that I could have plugged the drive into my Windows machine and used ext2fsd to transfer the named files. Then flat out reformatting the corrupted drive would have been a simpler process.  I learned this because after renaming a good chunk of the recovered files, I shut down the system and waited for my replacement drive to arrive in the mail.  Upon boot up, that drive as well as a second one had become corrupted.  Apparently the USB hub which worked great for 4 years decided to start killing off my data, and I had to move over to my Windows machine to have enough ports for transferring. One more caveat though: it seems e2fsck doesn’t handle non-english characters well.  I don’t know what the exact conditions are, because some files made it through, but about 80% of my files with Japanese names, or accented é’s just didn’t show up in the explorer. 

如果有安裝過Ubuntu與windows雙系統的使用者,

Ubuntu安裝完畢自動會掛載windows磁碟,

那反過來若是要在windows掛載Ubuntu磁碟的話,

就要透過特殊軟體Ext2Fsd來實現

  讓windows系統存取Ubuntu ext4磁碟

  Ext2Fsd是一個開源軟體,

它可以讓使用者在windows環境底下讀取ext2/ext3/ext4格式的磁區,

也就是說有Ubuntu/windows雙系統的電腦,

不需要切換到Ubuntu開機就能夠開啟Ubuntu中的文件,

1.首先要到ext2fsd官方網站下載軟體

下載完畢後安裝

出現歡迎畫面後按下一步,

選擇要安裝的資料夾

選擇安裝的元件(只有一個其實也不用選)

選擇程式集位置

讓程式開機時自動執行,

並讓系統具有寫入權限

安裝完畢後,

可選擇執行進入Ext2Fsd工具

64Bit系統使用者記得要使用V…

On my home I have an Ubuntu x64 server that serves as a file and media server (I have PS3 Media Server, Serviio, Flexget, Deluge, SABnzbd, Virtualbox, pyLoad, FlexRAID and a few other scripts such us periscope and SortTV) and 3 HDs (1 x 1TB and 2 x 2TB) and a small 250GB NTFS formated external HD which is used as a transfer disk between my office and my home.

Since I think that EXT3 is much better (in file resilience terms) than NTFS I wanted to have this HD formated in EXT3. But you cannot read/write and EXT3 disk on Windows.

Until I found ext2fsd project. Ext2fsd is a driver that you can install on your Windows PC (I have installed it on Windows 7 and Windows XP with no problem) and you can access (read/write) your ext2/3/4 partitions or disks, natively, without any other third party tool.

You install it, you setup Auto mount points, you reboot and you can read, write and delete any file or folder on your Linux partition/disk just using Windows Explorer!

The installation is straightforward. You just have to enable the ability to have write access on you Linux disk at the installation (if you don't then you will only have read access)