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bobranten/Ext4Fsd

Ext4 file system driver for Windows observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/bobranten/Ext4Fsd · C observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

58/100

  • Activity 79
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 2418
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 128
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2175 stars · 116 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Windows kernel driver that enables reading and writing ext2/ext3/ext4 Linux file systems on Windows 10 and 11, forked from the Ext2Fsd project with added metadata checksum and jbd2 support. It includes a signed installer and a management application (Ext2Mgr) for viewing disks and partitions.

Use cases

  • read ext4 partitions from windows
  • mount linux filesystem on windows 10/11
  • access ext4 drive after dual-boot
  • write to ext4 disk from windows
  • view ext filesystem type of partitions
  • recover files from linux partition on windows

When to choose

  • you need native kernel-level ext4 access on Windows 10/11 with a signed driver
  • you want a maintained fork of Ext2Fsd with metadata checksum and jbd2 support
  • you dual-boot Windows and Linux and need to read/write Linux partitions

When to avoid

  • you only need to read ext4 files occasionally and prefer a userspace tool like WSL2 mounts
  • you need guaranteed support for the newest ext4 features, which may only exist in self-compiled git code
  • you require a project with a formal open-source license

Facets

library · maturity active

file-system files windows operating-systems windows ext4 filesystem-driver kernel-driver ext2fsd linux-filesystems

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
bobranten/Ext4Fsdmain58

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