Is anyone aware of a utility that allows windows to read linux partitions? The only reason I ask is so that if I happen to be running windows (which I''ve been doing a bit lately since I''ve been playing a lot of games), and I''d like to be able to access some files if I need to. rm -rf /bin/laden

Funny you should mention this, I had my exgf boot up into linux tonight and she asked the very same thing. I did read somewhere there is a program that will let you read a linux drive from within windows. I''ll see if I can find it for you.

Maybe download.com has something about it, but they were down today.

With Google I found this (allows read only access to ext2, ext3).

I don''t know if they''ve changed explore2fs since I last used it, but if they haven''t then it probably still does this pretty dumb thing, it reads each file entirely into RAM before writing it to your ntfs/fat32 partition, so be careful with copying ISOs and stuff...

/Mikael