PC Filesystems access HOWTO

(this page is not a part of Filesystems HOWTO)
by Gef

QuickIntro:

You have X & Y operating systems.
If (You want to read from X the filesystem of Y and vice versa, but you don't know how)
Then (This document is for you!!!)

Well-known Operating Systems VS well-known Filesystems
Read FS:
From OS:
FAT
VFAT
(V)FAT32
NTFS
HPFS
EXT2
DOS / WIN 3.x (FAT)
 
WIN-95
(VFAT)
?
WIN-NT
(NTFS)
OS/2
(HPFS)
 
LINUX
(EXT2)
 
 

Legend1: (Access icons)

Full access. Read-only access. No long filename support. Read-only access.
No long filename support.

Legend2: (Detailed Info)
Package Readme file Related links

DOS/WIN
vs
NTFS

 See homepage See homepage Homepage: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntfs20.htm
Author: mark@osr.com, cogswell@cs.uoregon.edu

OS/2
vs
NTFS

 Using ntfs_003.zip file_id.diz Homepage: http://www.npw.net/~dsteiner/
Author: daniel.steiner@cch.cerberus.ch

Linux
vs
NTFS

 Using ntfs.tar.gz ntfs.lpm Homepage: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs/
Author: loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de

DOS
vs
HPFS

 Using ihpfs126.zip
Using hpfsa102.zip 		  Homepage: http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f96-bet/ihpfs/
Author: Marcus.Better@abc.se

DOS
vs
ext2

 Using EXT2TOOL.ZIP
Using LREAD10.ZIP

 EXT2TOOL.LSM
LREAD.LSM

Site: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2
Access with special utilities - No drive letter support

WIN95
vs
ext2

 Using 017.zip Fsdext2.txt Homepage: http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/
Author: Peter van Sebille

WINNT
vs
ext2

 Using ext2fsnt
Using ex2fs explorer 		See ext2fsnt Homepage: http://www.cyco.nl/~andreys/ext2fsnt/
Author: Andrey Shedel

OS/2
vs
ext2

Using EXT2_240.ZIP EXT2_240.LSM Homepage: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/matthieu.willm/ext2-os2
Site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2
Author: willm@ibm.net


Also, OS/2 supports:

  • Joliet CDROM format (Long filenames of Win95)
  • HFS
Also, Linux supports:

Here is good page for HPFS accessibility: http://www.globalxs.nl/home/c/cyborg/index.html
Here is good page for HFS accessibility: http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f96-bet/hfsutils

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