I'm tired of having to constantly defrag my windows partitions to get games to run with freezing. I read that you can reformat a partition to ext2 on windows.
How well does this work? Is it generally faster than NTFS? Has anyone here tried it?
Should I format to ext2 on Windows XP
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No, I think thats not possible. The ext2 driver aims at sharing files, like the ntfs read/write functionality in Linux.
It's not possible to install windows on anything but FAT&NTFS formatted partitions. You heard wrong.
mips said: It's not possible to install windows on anything but FAT&NTFS formatted partitions. You heard wrong.
I'm not trying to install windows.
I have windows on Drive C and a games partition on Drive D. I want to reformat Drive D to ext2.
Ext2 is the "old default" filesystem for Linux. The successor of Ext2 is Ext3, which is a journaling filesystem (that can sometimes make a huge difference when using it in other Operating Systems.)
In MS-Windows there are a few options to read/write to Ext2 or Ext3 partitions, but i'm not sure that there's a transparent solution to be used for gaming in Windows.
But take a look at this : http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows and see for yourself.
dont do it if its a dedicated windows partition, since windows wont be able to fsck the partition in the event of a dirty shutdown...
if you plan to share the partition with a linux install, then i would definately consider it.
u-slayer said: I'm not trying to install windows.
I have windows on Drive C and a games partition on Drive D. I want to reformat Drive D to ext2.
In that case it can be done but I find it slower than ntfs. There are also issues if something should go wrong like not unmounting the filesystem properly etc.
The best filesystem for Windows is NTFS - sorry...
hermanab said: the best filesystem for windows is ntfs - sorry...
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