On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:40:46PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > >> Is there a good, free (as in FOSS) program that will allow me to access >> some Linux filesystems (especially ext3 or ext4) from Windows? I would >> just need read-only functionality. I really don't like using NTFS with >> Linux, so I'll want to use ext3 or ext4, probably, on external devices >> with Linux, but sometimes I'll want to access those files from Windows. >> It would be especially great if the program could run from a flash >> drive. >> >> Have any recommendations? > > Any problem in computer science can be solved by adding a level of > indirection. > > Install Linux in a VirtualBox instance, and export the filesystem to the > Windows host via Samba. That's an interesting scheme. Is there any way to make that easy to do? Can I have the virtual box and linux on a flash drive, click something and have it run? It sounds pretty tricky for a portable system. Mike