Ext3 instead of Ext4

[Dotan Cohen]

On 6 March 2010 18:02, MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop and some experts suggested that I
> should use
> ext3 if I want to copy files from windows ( or other file systems ). I am
> not sure, but respect
> their advises.
>
> I couldn't notice if there is an option to select ext3/ext4 filesystem in
> Ubuntu ?
>
> Can someone give right directions in this matter ? I immediate requirements
> are to use
> e2fsprogs which are filesystem utilties ?
>

Your ability to read / write files from Windows partitions (NTFS and
FAT) depend on the NTFS and FAT drivers, not on you Linux file system.
The only reason that I could fathom that they said that is because
there is a Windows ext3 driver, so if you want to access the Linux
partition from Windows you'd need ext3. However, the ext3 driver would
probably work for reading from ext4 as well, as backward compatibility
was a design goal. I wouldn't try writing, however, without some
better advice.


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