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NixMount 0.1.0

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The first release of NixMount: ext2, ext3, ext4 and Btrfs volumes on Windows, with drive letters.

Install

  1. Download NixMount-Setup.exe and run it.
  2. Select Install. The driver is included, so there is nothing else to download.
  3. Pick a volume and select Mount.

Windows may warn about an unrecognized app, because the file isn't code-signed. Select More info, then Run anyway. You can check the download against NixMount-Setup.exe.sha256.

Requires 64-bit Windows 10 or 11. Remove it any time from Installed apps in Settings.

What's in it

  • Read and write ext2, ext3 and ext4, with every metadata change journaled through the real jbd2 log
  • Read and write Btrfs, including RAID0, RAID1, RAID10, RAID1C3 and RAID1C4, snapshots and subvolumes
  • Read Btrfs RAID5 and RAID6, even with a device missing, and all three compression codecs
  • Read-only by default, with recovery done in memory so looking at a volume never changes it
  • Browse and export files without mounting anything
  • Automatic mounting when a remembered volume is plugged in

Before you write to a volume

This is a first release of filesystem software, so keep backups of anything you write to, and try it on an image or a spare disk first. Never write to a volume from a hibernated Linux. See the user guide and what is and isn't supported.

WinFsp - Windows File System Proxy, Copyright (C) Bill Zissimopoulos, https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp

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