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Is there a Windows or Macintosh driver for Ext4?

April 26, 2017driver ext4 Macintosh Windows

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Is there a Windows or Macintosh driver for Ext4?

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No. Unlike Ext3 which merely extended the Ext2 on-disk format with journalling support, Ext4 is more of a fundamental change and drivers for other operating systems capable of reading the ext2/ext3 format have not been upgraded to recognize the new Ext4 format yet. If you want this ability, stick to the older ext3/ext2 format and do not upgrade to Ext4 yet or use Ext4 but with the no extents tune2fs option.