Ext2 is forward compatible with ext3. There's simple migration tools
builtin to mkfs.ext3 on Linux, iirc. Then ext3 is forward compatible with
ext4 with similar tools. So it's kind of a Canadian cross situation but
you could you'll always be able to get access to an ext2 partition from
Linux.
-L
On Wednesday, November 20, 2013, wrote:
> On 2013-11-20 05:45, Rugxulo wrote:
> > I vaguely recall (but never tried) that there used to be such a
> > (shareware?) DOS driver from Paragon Software [EDIT: IFSDRV?] that
> > could read ext2 and some others.
>
> This would be a good solution. Only, in order to be useful such a driver
> should target some more recent filesystem.
>
>
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