I recently came across an issue on my work computer. I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 as my main development OS and Windows 7 for compatibility with some company software and network stuff. My problem is that, since the linux OS is the main one, I want to store my data in my home on an ext4 partition. But I need my data in Windows as well, since I have to do some work in there.
My idea of a solution is run a script at system startup that will use rsync to synchronize given directories between windows and kubuntu partitions. (its mostly documents and source codes, so the size doubling isn't a problem). That way I would have an updated data all the time and on top of that, kind of a backup in case of corrupted partition.
I can easily do that in linux - in fact it would be a really short script written in minutes. But the problem here is: is there any way to do this in Windows? I mean - can I access ext4 partition from cmd in windows? I know that there are GUI tools that can access ext4 partitions, but I can't use them in a script.
Has anyone faced similar issue, or know of a cmd tool that can help me achieve that?
Thanks in advance!