Reading/Writing to ext2/3/4, btrfs, reiserfs, etc from Windows?

[18358414]

Hello,

 

I'm dual-booting Windows/Linux and for various reasons I need to be able to access data from my Linux and BSD partitions from Windows.  Rebooting into Linux each time to copy files into the Windows partition is annoying and it seems like if Linux can read/write to Windows, the opposite should also be true.  Most of the drives I'm using today are EXT4, but there's a few BTRFS and ReiserFS on some older systems which I may need to be able to access in the future. 

 

What is the most reliable way to access that information from within Windows?

[Justin_]

it should be true, but Windows cannot access linux/mac partitions and there is no program/mod that will make that happen. You can reformat your Linux partition to make it something that windows can access or you can make a new partition that would act like a D:\ drive to keep the files in that you need access to in Windows, but that is about the limit of your options.

[NelizMastr]

This article might interest you. Ext on Windows is pretty doable, not sure about btrfs and other flavors.

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways-to-access-your-linux-partitions-from-windows/

[Justin_]

Ok that's right. I remember now, last time I was trying to mount a Linux drive onto a Windows box I was trying to mount some uncommon file system...