Many friends who go to Linux from the Windows platform will not only load a Linux on the machine, but keep Windows. This way, if you are not used to Linux, you can also switch back. After all, Windows's desktop system is still very human. Accessing the Windows partition under Linux, especially for the old FAT partition, only Mount is required, accessing the NTFS partition is slightly complicated, requiring drive support. But sometimes we will also need to visit Linux partitions from the Windows system. For example, when you start Windows, you suddenly want to see a certain file under Linux and don't want to restart the system. The following is a brief introduction to the method of accessing Linux from a Windows system.
The most commonly used is a tool called Explore2FS. This tool can be downloaded free of charge and the interface is provided to facilitate expansion. Explore2FS operation is a graphical interface, as long as you run, you know how to use it. This tool supports EXT2, EXT3, and you can copy files on the Linux partition, usually used to back up files. However, in general, the tools accessing the Linux partition will not provide a write operation, and some even support writing as the default option. The Explore2FS description is supported by support, but I still have not successfully written after changing the settings.
The second tool is EXT2IFS. Unlike Explore2fs, ext2ifs is not accessing Linux partitions directly from its interface, but is run as a Windows service. Its setup interface is graphically, supporting EXT2 and EXT3. Follow the steps of the operation steps to start the service will start a new partition in my computer, which is a map of the Linux partition. This will now access them as accessing the Windows file system. This tool also does not support writing. The download address is http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm.
Another tool is called EXT2FSD, this is the only write operation in the tool I have used, and it provides the source code directly. Like EXT2IFS, EXT2FSD is also run as a service in the background, and accessing the Linux partition is also visited by virtual partition mapping in my computer. However, it starts to pass the command line, and know the specific location of a partition. For example, there is a partition on the third partition of the first hard disk, now I want to map it into F: disk, then execute the command mount 0
1 f
:. However, I remember to run Setup before this, I have not running. EXT2FSD does not open the write operation, you need to modify the registry file ext2fsd.reg, change Writingsupport to 00000001, and modify the configuration file ext2fsd.inf, change the Writingsupport inside to 1. Re-import the registry and start the service, write operations can be successfully completed. The download address is http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/.
Accessing the Linux partition under Windows will bring a lot of convenience, such as once I am not careful, the fstab file is modified, so that Linux can't start, in fact, only the fstab file can be modified, so I use EXT2FSD to open the write operation to modify FSTAB The system has successfully recovered. However, writing operation is very dangerous, the author of these software is not recommended, and if you must use it, you should be careful.
