Top 15 Ext2 Installable File System Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

Q: Does the Ext2 driver access Ext3 volumes, too?
A: Yes

http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html#acc_ext3

1. Ext2Read (Ext2Explore)

Ext2Read (Ext2Explore) Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports Linux LVM2. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file system images.......

2. DiskInternals Linux Reader

DiskInternals Linux Reader A freeware tool for reading and extracting files from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4, HFS, UFS2, Reiser4, and ReiserFS partitions in Windows.......

3. Ext2Fsd

Ext2Fsd Ext2Fsd is an ext2 file system driver for Windows (2k, XP, Vista and Win7). It’s a free software. Anyone can modify or distribute it under GPL2.Features Ext2Fsd supports:ext2/ext3 volume reading & writingext3 journal replay when mountingvarious codepage: utf8, cp936, cp950 …mountpoint automatical assignmentlarge inode size: 128, 256, …large file size......

4. Explore2fs

Explore2fs Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.......

5. Paragon ExtFS

Paragon ExtFS Overcome communication barriers between Mac OS X and Linux formatted hard drives!ExtFS for Mac is a low-level file system driver which lets you work with Linux files on your Mac OS X with no hassleUnprecedented high-level performance - the transfer rate is the same as with the native HFS file......

6. Mtools

Mtools Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from GNU and Unix without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools can now handle the long filenames of Windows......

7. Makebootfat

Makebootfat This utility creates a bootable FAT filesystem and populates it with files and boot tools. It is mainly designed to create bootable USB and Fixed disk for the AdvanceCD project.......

8. Multi-HDD [FUSE] filesystem

Multi-HDD [FUSE] filesystem While writing files they are written to a first HDD until the HDD has the free space (see mlimit option), then they are written ona second HDD, then to a third HDD, etc.df will show a total statistics of all filesystems like there is a big one HDD.If an overflow......

9. Ceph

Ceph Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.......

10. GD Map

GD Map GdMap is a tool which allows to visualize disk space. Ever wondered why your hard disk is full or what directory and files take up most of the space? With GdMap these questions can be answered quickly. To display directory structures cushion treemaps are used which visualize a complete folder......

11. tagsistant

tagsistant Tagsistant is a semantic filesystem for Linux and BSD kernels. Its tag based method to organize files let's you quickly search and find it. It's able to reason on tags, it allows the creation of external plugins to enhance its behavior and its Free Software!......

12. Quobyte

Quobyte Quobyte is a complete software storage solution for reliable and scalable storage infrastructures. It turns commodity hardware into a data center file system that enables warehouse-scale storage infrastructures without compromising operations. Focused on delivering high-performance for all workloads, Quobyte is production-ready and very user-friendly with built-in management tools that enable......

13. Paragon HFS+ for Windows

Paragon HFS+ for Windows Experience total communication between MAC & Windows with the industry’s highest performing file system technologyParagon HFS+ for Windows is the only solution that provides full read-write access to HFS+/HFSX partitions on any type of disks (APM, GPT, MBR) under most of Windows versions!Access Mac-formatted partitions in Windows systems with the......

14. Fuse4X

Fuse4X Filesystem in userspace implementation for MaxOSX......

15. HFSExplorer

HFSExplorer HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images.It can read the file systems HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names).HFSExplorer allows you to browse your Mac volumes with a graphical file system browser, extract......