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{{Infobox software

| name = Ext2Fsd

| title =

| logo =

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| released = {{Start date and age|2002|01|26}}

| discontinued = yes

| latest release version = 0.69 <ref name="latestrelease">{{cite web |url=http://www.ext2fsd.com/?p=236 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125125212/http://www.ext2fsd.com/?p=236 |url-status=deadusurped |archive-date=2019-01-25 |title=Ext2Fsd 0.69 released ! |date=2018-01-13}}</ref>

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2017|11|2}}

| latest preview version =

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| genre = [[Installable File System]]

| license = [[GNU General Public License#Version 2|GNU GPL v2]]

| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20190430101555/http://www.ext2fsd.com/|www.ext2fsd.com}}

| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/matt-wu/Ext3Fsd}}

| website = {{URLusurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/2019043010155520240805114013/httphttps://www.ext2fsd.com/|www.ext2fsd.com Archive of the original website]}}

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'''Ext2Fsd''' (short for '''Ext2 File System Driver''') is a [[free and open-source software|free]] [[Installable File System]] driver written in [[C (programming language)|C]] for the [[Microsoft Windows]] operating system family. It facilitates read and write access to the [[ext2]], [[ext3]] and [[ext4]] [[file system]]s.

The driver can be installed on [[Windows 2000]], [[Windows XP]], [[Windows Server 2003]], [[Windows Vista]], [[Windows 7]], [[Windows 8]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTcyMjg |title=Ext2Fsd: EXT3/EXT4 Support Now Works On Windows 8 |date=2014-06-19}}</ref> [[Windows 10]], [[Windows Server 2008]], [[Windows Server 2008 R2]].<ref name="latestrelease" /> Support for [[Windows NT]] was dropped in version 0.30.<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/index.htm |title=Ext2fsd|date=2009-07-27}}</ref>

The program ''Ext2Mgr'' can optionally be installed additionally to manage drive letters and such. Since the final release in 2017, theno applicationfurther hasupdates effectivelyhave been abandonwaremade asto itsExt2Fsd. authorThe seeminglyofficial disappearedwebsite insuccumbed August,to [[link rot]] in 20202024.

== Reception ==

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===Supported Ext3/4 features===

Source:<ref name="latestrelease" />===

* flexible [[inode]] size: > 128 bytes, up to [[Block (data storage)|block]] size

* dir_index: [[HTree|htree]] directory index

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==External links==

*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20240805114013/https://www.ext2fsd.com/ Archive of the original website]}}

*{{Official website|www.ext2fsd.com}}

*[http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/index.htm Old website]

*{{SourceForge|ext2fsd|Ext2 File System Driver for Windows}}

[[Category:Free software programmed in C]]