The “Ext2 IFS For Windows” driver allows you to access your Linux filesystem from Windows. This is a big thing… if anyone has had to dual boot before, you know how frustrating it is when some important file is locked away on an NTFS partition or EXT2/3 partition and you’re in the wrong OS to access it. A common work around is to partition your computer into three drives, NTFS, FAT32, EXT2/3. Then, you keep all of the common files on the FAT32 partition. This is not the worlds best solution however, as you tend to get poor disk space utilization.

Now, you can just create a Linux partition and access it from windows. It supports read and write. As a matter of fact, about the only thing it doesn’t support is defrag.