techSaturday, July 23, 2005
Reading ReiserFS in Windows
I left my PC in MN, but I did bring one of the harddrives to WA. It has lots of entertaining data on it, but there is a problem. The harddrive is formatted with a reiserFS file system which I use for most of my linux partitions - it has a number of advantages over most conventional filesystems.
MS Windows takes one look at the rieserFS partition and says "I don't know what that is - it's greek to me." (Windows only recognizes 2 types of filesystems - FAT32/16 and NTFS - both designed by Microsoft - big surprise there -- They have never shown any effort to support any other type of filesystem)
I found some software called rfstool to allow you to copy stuff from a reiserfs partition in windows. It pretty much just lets you list the contents and copy files one by one (also directories recursively). You can't access a file directly from reiserfs - it would be nice, but I haven't found a tool to do that yet.
MS Windows takes one look at the rieserFS partition and says "I don't know what that is - it's greek to me." (Windows only recognizes 2 types of filesystems - FAT32/16 and NTFS - both designed by Microsoft - big surprise there -- They have never shown any effort to support any other type of filesystem)
I found some software called rfstool to allow you to copy stuff from a reiserfs partition in windows. It pretty much just lets you list the contents and copy files one by one (also directories recursively). You can't access a file directly from reiserfs - it would be nice, but I haven't found a tool to do that yet.
