Accessing Linux filesystems in windows
Irfan Habib · Linux journal · 2007
Linux has done a great job in allowing Microsoft Windows users to access their Windows partitions from Linux. Support for a majority of Windows filesystems is available, such as seamless support for FAT16/32 and partial but increasingly complete support for NTFS. There also are some tools, such as Captive-NTFS, which enable complete support for NTFS drives from Linux. Data access is not restricted to the local host. Samba allows Linux users to access their shared data on Windows computers over a network. Hence, we can say that, for MS Windows users, access to their data is no longer an impediment to Linux migration.