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Why can I play media files as they are downloading on Linux, but not Windows?
On Linux (with ext4) I can open a video file for playback as it is being downloaded via another program (my browser, wget, a torrent client with sequential downloading enabled, etc). My media player ...
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How to create a diskimage of an SD card with partitions having different filesystems?
I have a 16GB SD card with 10%FAT32 90%EXT4. I want to get a single disk image file that would contain all of the disc contents. How can I create a disk image of such a disc on Windows 10?
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How to mount LUKS/EXT4 disk in Windows 7?
I used the defaults in cryptsetup to create an encrypted disk with EXT4:
$ sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sda # list property luks
LUKS header information for /dev/sda
Version: 1
Cipher name: ...
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ext4 for data partition in Windows
I have moved my Windows user profile to a separate partition in order to share it with my linux install. I have originally tried to make a NTFS formatted data partition, but this creates some issues ...
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Copying .exe files from ext4 to ntfs [closed]
maybe a silly question but..
why cant i copy an .exe file format from linux (ubuntu 14.04) to windows 8.1 without corrupts when i try to execute it?
I can copy some others file formats like images ...
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Someone please explain how I'm writing to EXT4 from Windows 8.1
I'm dual booting Debian amd-64 Wheezy 7.5 and Windows 8.1
I have 6 drives and I am 100% positive that four of the drives are formatted Ext4 (Formatted in Linux)
How on earth is it that when I'm in ...
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How do I read the Ext4 partition of my SD card on Windows? [duplicate]
I have a 32 GB SD card with one FAT32 partition and one Ext4 partition. If I mount the SD card to the computer I can read the FAT32 partition in Windows just fine. But how do I read the Ext4 partition?...
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How to mount read-write an ext4 partition on Windows? [duplicate]
I want to use ext4 on my external HDD, but it must be cross-platform. (At least Linux, Win7 & WinXP).
Unfortunately, I haven't found any proper driver allowing Windows to WRITE to ext4. I've ...
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Mounting external usb harddisk (ext4) in virtual box in windows
I would like to mount my external linux formatted usb harddrive in a virtual machine. The host is windows 7. Unfortunately virtual box doesn't enumerate the external harddrive in the options menu of ...
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How can I get access to EXT2, EX3 and EXT4 partitions on Windows 7?
I tried all programs recommended to mount Linux partitions like EXT2 or EXT3 or even EXT4 but no one can do well on Windows 7 32 bit.
I want to access read-write, is there a program that can do this?
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Does an ext4 writer for Windows exist?
Are there any applications that can write to ext4 file systems from Windows?
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How do you make NTFS living with ext4 safe for windows to mount
Hi I want to partition a hard drive with NTFS and ext3.
I was going to partition the drive all with primary partitions (don't need 5+ parts) in windows XP then change the last partitions to 83/Linux ...
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ext2explore for windows doesn't read ext3/4 sparse files what does?
I have some sparse files that I want to read/copy to windows but I can't find a FS reader that works any suggestions?
EDIT: to clarify the sparse files are living on an ext3 partition it's this ...
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Online, "Smart" Partition Manager with Full Ext4 Support?
Is there any partition manager for Windows that can manage (resize, move, etc.) ext4 partitions?
Caveats:
Resize must be smart when resizing from the beginning of the partition.
Many partition ...
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Windows with a better filesystem
From my observations as a Java developer working on Windows workstations, NTFS is slow compared to Linux filesystems. Question is, is there anything in the NTFS driver that can be manually tuned, for ...
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