I ran the exe app in windows, selecting large file support.
Then, after moving my files from my FAT32 storage partition to my Windows partition, I started up PCLinuxOS.
Using the PCLinuxOS Control Center, I then deleted the FAT 32 partition and created a new Ext3 (Ext2 not a choice) partition in it's place. Formatted, exited the PCLOS Control Center, and rebooted into Windows.
This app puts a shortcut into the Windows Control Panel. At 1st, Windows does not see this new partition. Running the app allows you to name the partition, so I named it D.
Here's a pic of the IFS Window when I was done-
Then back to "My Computer" and SHAZAM! There's the new Ext3 partition.
Then I just cut and pasted the files I moved earlier.
It can read ext3 because ext3 is ext2 but with journaling. Infact this is an ext2 driver that supports ext3 simply because ext3 is backwards compatible.
I would love to see them add support for journals, but ext2 (ext3 without journal) is still way better than FAT. And you an use it with a journal in linux.
The Ext3 file system is the Ext2 file system which has been extended by journaling. Ext3 is backward-compatible to Ext2 - an Ext3 volume can be mounted and used as an Ext2 volume. Just as older Linux Kernels which do not know the Ext3 file system can mount Ext3 volumes (as Ext2 volumes), the Ext2 file system driver ext2fs.sys for Windows incorporated in this software package can do it without any problems, too. Of course you do not take advantage of the journaling of the Ext3 file system if you mount it as an Ext2 file system.
So the way I read this, if the partition is a Ext3 partition, the jounaling will be available. If it's a Ext2 partion, it's not available.
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