On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:06:47 -0400 David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rene Rasmussen wrote: > > What driver do you use for accessing the ext3 partitions? > > I found the following to choose from: > > Ext2 IFS and Ext2 FSD > > > > How is the stability. Did you have any trouble getting it to work? > > > > Until now I have only used ext3 for one of my external harddrives, > > the other two have been formatted with the ntfs filesystem. It > > would be nice though to be able to use the drives with the native > > linux filesystem instead. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Best regards, > > Rene > > I've used Ext2 IFS, but only lightly. Seems to work fine, as it was > able to both read from and write to an ext3 partition. But again > I've not used it in a heavy duty configuration, or used it often. > > HTH, > > DR Since I have my external drives formatted as ext3 since years I've used ext2 IFS a couple of times and it worked very well, except once where it just didn't. ext fsd worked fine in that case. Never heard of that total commander plugin, might be a nice option. HTH, Philipp