But floppies are supposedly formatted in the ext2 filesystem. But I am by no means an expert on this stuff, particularly the gears and mechanisms of Linux. To me, it's all one big mirical.

The 10-page PDF describes how Finley implemented the Linux ext2 file system for use on Singularity and how he investigated Singularity's design and performance.

Dec 18, 2007 06:01:00 "DiskInternals Linux Reader" to read Ext2 / Ext3 files from Windows It is a very useful free software that can operate on Windows 95/98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Server ...

Some people will always need to access filesystems from different operating systems, whether MS-DOS or VFAT from Linux, or ext2 from Windows. So the tools we discussed will prove useful to those ...

This version provides features and fixes too numerous to list. Ext2 Filesystem v1.3b2 is a utility that enables the use of Linux Ext2-formatted volumes in Mac OS X. This version fixes several bugs.

The idea that ext2/3/4 support was a feature that was added to ChromeOS “for some historical reason.” Maybe that historical reason is that, just maybe, you got it for free.

There are a number of Linux commands that will display file system types along with the file system names, mount points and such. Some will also display sizes and available disk space.