Re: Setting Win95 to recognize Linux partition?

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From: NOOOBODY DOTT net PeterW att cla...
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:00

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In <54wwupq77s.fsf@rrdjazz.nist.gov>, Przemek Klosowski <przemek@rrdjazz.nist.gov> writes:
>You can't get Win95 to recognize Linux partition (I understand that 
>you want to access a Linux ext2 filesystem in Windows). 
>
> I have heard of a OS/2 driver to read ext2 filesystems, but I don't think
>there's anything for W95 or WNT. Those folks don't seem to care much about
>Linux, and we don't care for them either :^)

Linux Journal had a one-pager on a DOS ext2 driver, so don't be so sure...
I would not recommend such a beast because it accesses the ext2 data with
the equivalent of root access, so one bad "ActiveX Control" could destroy all
your data, including Linux. 

Active, cos it doesn't ask your permission before specific acts
Control, because it can control your whole PC
X, because there's a huge unkown variable: level of hostility

Follow-ups trimmed to comp.os.linux.setup :-)

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Date: 1996/12/13
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