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It also shows a partition’s status, including the amount of free space. The user interface handles mounting and configuration.

Paragon Software’s Linux File Systems for Windows provides read/write access to Linux EXT file systems and read-only access to XFS and BTRFS file systems. I had access to the disk partitions on my dual-boot, Windows/Fedora Linux system after installing the software.

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Paragon Software now sells Linux File Systems for Windows (see figure) for under $20/system. Unfortunately, Windows did not have support for these Linux file systems-until now. Linux has its own file systems, including Ext, XFS, and BTRFS.

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I can access Windows partitions from Linux using drivers that handle the FAT and NTFS file systems. However, if you really want to, you can do it both in Linux and in Windows.I do a good bit of cross platform development using Linux and Microsoft Windows. So, in conclusion, you almost certainly will not need to defragment an NTFS formatted external HDD. As I said before, on an external drive I don't think you will be able to detect this, even if it does happen. In those cases you can notice a decrease in drive performance. Fragmentation can be a problem for system drives where you can have many I/O operations per second. In addition, even if your drive is fragmented, you don't really care. Most of these files will never change in size, and therefore, will never fragment the drive. This kind of thing is not likely to occur very often in a drive used for storing 'backups, then family movies, pictures.

In other words, the file will be fragmented. If there is not enough free space at the position where the file was created, this extra data will be written to a different part of the hard drive. You then modify the file and its size goes up to 20 MB. So, say you save a 1 MB file on your drive. This is usually caused by changing a file's size after it has been written. Briefly, a fragmented drive is one where the files on the drive are not stored in contiguous blocks but spread out across the drive. Have a look here for a simple explanation of fragmentation. I think, however, that you are attaching way too much importance to drive defragmentation. Finally, since your drive will also be accessed under windows you can use the windows defragmenter. The other is simply copying all data from the external drive, deleting everything from the drive and then copying everything back. Roland's question about defragmenting, yes, there are two ways I know of to defragment an NTFS drive under linux. Such file names, however, are both a bad idea and of no particular interest to you.ĮDIT: In answer to B. The bottleneck will be the rate of data transfer over the USB cable.įor most users, the only obvious benefit of ext4 over NTFS is that ext4 allows file names with special characters ( ? & % etc). I doubt you will even notice a difference on an external USB drive. If this were your primary hard drive, perhaps the advantages of ext4 (briefly, less drive fragmentation and slightly improved performance, for more information see here) would be worthwhile. It can easily be read/written to by Linux, Windows and OS X (among others).Ĭonsidering the intended use and the fact that it is an external drive, I see no reason why you should go through the hassle that using ext4 will be. The largest files it will store are Clonezilla disk images (I don't know, if they will be large files or not).Ĭan someone provide a solution for this problem? Or is there NO important enough difference between ext4 and ext3, and I should use ext3? - (If yes, then can I use Ext2Fsd for that ext3 mount?) It won't really move, just when it is used to migrate computer's data to a new one. It will be connected to a Raspberry Pi, if I finally receive it. What is the External HDD used for? - First, it will store backups, then family movies, pictures. Also I've read some words about writing ext4 in Windows could cause data loss on the disk. Ext2fsd-0.48-bb8-signed Support for ext4 extents and fix New: Matt Wu has made a new release 0.50 atĮ.

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extent: size truncating & expanding, file deletionĪlso, I have found a patch for Ext4Fsd v0.50 ( here):.journal: log-based operations, external journal.journal: only support replay for internal journal.extent: reading, writing with no extending.uninit_bg: fast fsck and group checksum.sparse_super: super block backup in group descriptor.flexible inode size: > 128 bytes, up to block size.ext4 extent read-only, no size truncating and expanding support I've found Ext2Fsd, but it only reads ext4.ĩ.

#Paragon extfs for windows mega driver

Unfortunately, I haven't found any proper driver allowing Windows to WRITE to ext4. I want to use ext4 on my external HDD, but it must be cross-platform. Original close reason(s) were not resolved The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 4 months ago and left it closed: