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Keep a WSL2-mounted ext4 drive persistent and available to Windows after closing the WSL window
The documentation to mount ext4 drive into Windows using WSL is clearly explain here (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-disk)
However, anytime I close my WSL2 session, I lose ...
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FORMAT ext4 filesystem from Windows
I have a hard drive previously used with a Linux system, with an ext4 filesystem. I would like now to zero out the hard drive from a Windows system.
I understand I can do this using the FORMAT command,...
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Read EXT4 GPT partition type SSD on windows [closed]
I use SharpExt4 to read and copy data from an EXT4 SSD with an MBR partition type in Windows.
Now, I have a new card with a GPT partition type, as the new memory card is 4 terabytes and not able to ...
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File deletion on NTFS vs ext4
How does deletion of files on NTFS compare to deletion on ext4 in terms of basic methodology?
This may be too broad of a question, so alternatively, I was looking at the Veracrypt docs
On Windows, ...
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Does Windows 10 now support EXT4? [closed]
I recently updated my home PC from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro via the inline update tool (update existing installation.) This went smoothly with no notable issues.
Upon completing the update I ...
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How to rename a file on an ext4 filesystem from Windows with ext4 incompatible features with ext3 enabled?
I know about doing something like mounting the disk but all those solutions works because ext2 is retro compatible with ext3 and ext4.
But that time, it won’t work : I enabled ext4 features so ...
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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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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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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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Windows/Linux shared system drive storage formatting
I plan on setting up a dualboot with Windows10 and ArchLinux.
They will share a 1TB SSD and a 3 TB HDD. How should I format the partitions on the different drives?
What are the advantages of ext4 vs ...
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Is there a better way to transfer data from a non-Windows file system to Windows?
When designing our next-gen airborne LIDAR system, we intended to store our data on storage drives that were formatted with NTFS. This is the way our previous-gen systems work. Our systems run Linux ...
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Automated way to create EXT4 Partition on Windows 10
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Partitioning 32GB uSD cards with 2GB FAT32/~30GB EXT4 in a production environment (20 per day) performed by production technicians (people who need something that's simple as a single ...
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Create ext4 img in windows
I am trying to create an automated android x86 installer for my friend. I am creating img with dd. But I cant format it ro ext4. I found e2fsprog on a form but cant find a valid exucatible. How can I ...
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Excel to Ubuntu filesystem via USB or internet?
I had machines with Ubuntu hosting a VirtualBox with Windows and Excel and if I recall correctly, I had Excel access the Ubuntu file system directly (which was ext4).
Since I usually have both an ...
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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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