Read Linux-formatted (ext3) EBS volume mounted on Windows Server 2008 instance

Posted by Greg Owen on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Greg Owen
Published on 2012-08-30T22:14:20Z Indexed on 2012/08/31 3:40 UTC
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I've got a Windows Server 2008 R2 instance set up in Amazon EC2. I've also got some Ubuntu instances on the same EC2 account. I'd like to be able to mount the EBS volume from one of the Ubuntu instances onto the Windows instance as an external drive and then access that drive from the Windows instance.

I've looked at tools like ext2fsd and ext2 IFS, but these haven't worked (I couldn't get the former to work, and the latter says that it supports Windows 2008 but gives an error when I try to install it, saying that it only supports up to Windows 2003).

I know that there are all kinds of tools to view Linux partitions and that there are filesystems that are compatible with both Linux and Windows, but neither of those options works here (I want to be able to attach and detach the Ubuntu volumes on command, rather than have a permanent partition, and Ubuntu EBS volumes are ext3 by default).

Anybody know a good tool I should use?

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