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I would like to have shared home directory (or it's subdirectory) under dual boot Windows/Linux. I know I can how to mount NTFS under Linux, but I don't like it has different file permissions. So, I would prefer reverse: mount ext4 under Windows. Is it possible?

UPDATE

I don't want to READ ext4 partition, I want to read it AND WRITE.

Documentation for newbies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Permissions

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  • Looks like third party tools are available for this: askubuntu.com/questions/9933/…. I tried searching up PowerShell solutions but couldn't find too much but someone else may know.
    – Vomit IT - Chunky Mess Style
    Commented Aug 21, 2017 at 15:07
  • To mount read-only, use DiskInternals Linux Reader. However, I've found writing to ext[n] from Windows risky, sometimes damaging Linux.
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Commented Aug 21, 2017 at 22:15
  • @Run5k don't you mix r/o and r/w?
    – Dims
    Commented Aug 22, 2017 at 8:36
  • I've been looking for this too. There are plenty of third party tools available. I will not link them here as they can be easily found in google search. However I have not found any driver that would allow to mount ext FS natively (so that it can be accessed from windows explorer). At least not for windows 10. Keep an eye on ext2fsd they have released great drivers before
    – Art Gertner
    Commented Aug 22, 2017 at 8:54
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    I have a terrible workaround in mind but it may work: start a ubuntu server in virtualbox, try to mount the partition in this VM, then try to share the folder with the windows host.
    – Gribouillis
    Commented Aug 22, 2017 at 9:08

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