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Refalm:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Well I never, piratePenguin suggesting something non-open source what's the world comming to? :D
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Yeah, I usually do that, but I won't this time, here's an open source solution that is far better:

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm

Aloone_Jonez:
Refalm,
I think in this case the closed source program that piratePenguin suggested is better as it can both read and write to a ext file system where as the one you suggested is read only.

piratePenguin:
Never knew about the free one, thanks Rafalm.
I initially wasn't gonna post that link, but I thought, if I inform him that it's freeware, he can make his own decision on whether to use it or not.

--- Quote from: http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html ---This software is freeware. It may be copied and distributed free of charge as long as no modifications are made in the software and no components are added or removed.
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Stupid, unnecessary (I can only assume) restrictions if you ask me.

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I think in this case the closed source program that piratePenguin suggested is better as it can both read and write to a ext file system where as the one you suggested is read only.
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It might be better, but your freedom is restricted.

Orethrius:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---It might be better, but your freedom is restricted.
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La libert

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Never knew about the free one,
It might be better, but your freedom is restricted.
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It depends on your point of view, personally I'd rather have the freedom to both read and write to ext under Windows rather than be limited to read only access. The restrictions on my freedom imposed by the licence are of little importance and far out weigh the restrictions that would be imposed by using an inferiour piece of software even though it has a less restrictive lisence. I don't wish to alter the source or compile for a differant OS which would defeat the object of this program anyway, if I wanted to do that I'd just mess around with the origional Linux ext code.

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