Ext2Fsd is a free driver for Microsoft Windows that allows the system to work with Ext2 and Ext3 file systems. To work with the application, start the disk manager and then select the disk or partition in Ext2 and Ext3 format that you want to mount and assign it a letter.
The main benefit of using Ext2Fsd is its ability to enable Microsoft Windows systems to read and write to Ext2 and Ext3 file systems.
Functions supported by Ext2Fsd:
- support for reading and writing to ext2/ext3 partitions;
- support for ext3 journalistic editing;
- support for various code pages: utf8, cp936, cp950, etc;
- Automatic assignment of the mounting point;
- support for large inodes: 128, 256, etc;
- support for files larger than 4 GB;
- shared CIFS access over the network;
- htree directory indexing;
- Read-only ext4 support;
- fsck support (uninit_bg).
Functions not supported by Ext2Fsd:
- Full support for ext3 file system journaling;
- Extended support for ext4;
- LVM and Linux raid (md).
Functions supported for Ext3/4 file systems:
- flexible inode size;
- htree directory indexing;
- support for large files.
Functions not supported for Ext3/4 file systems:
- Journalism;
- flex_bg;
- EA and ACL.