Traveling with a big file

[Tom Buskey]

On 11/30/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Tech Writer <TechWtr at handspun.com> wrote:


> > If I try EX2/EXT3, with Windows read it?
>
>   Not natively.
>
>   Google just found this: http://www.fs-driver.org/  It claims to be a
> free Windows IFS (installable filesystem) driver for EXT2.  That may
> be worth checking out.
>
> > If not, I think I'll try to split the file, as was suggested earlier.
>
>   If you're not expecting to have to work with files this large very
> often, that is likely the best choice.

I've used one of the ext2 plugins with Windows XP before on a USB
disk.  It let me see files, read them, write them, etc.  It's been
around for awhile.