Software to view Ext2 / Ext3 partitions?

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I recently bought a NAS and was wondering whether i could copy files to it from within my pc rather than across the network?

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Don't know about software, but I suppose you could use any Live CD (which would read your NTFS) to copy between hard drives.
 
A Live CD is basically Linux that runs off the CD rather than the hard drive. A lot of distros offer Live CDs as standard. If you boot into it with both hard drives mounted you should be able to simply drag/drop between the two.
 
Just got this IF Drives thing working, very easy to use ... once i figured out i had to assign a Letter to all 3 partitions - Working in Windows 7 :)

Anyway, i dont know a thing about Linux and i was wondering ....

There are 3 partitions, 1st is 100mb, 2nd is 930gb and the 3rd - the 'Linux Swap' is 500mb. Do the 1st and 3rd partitions need to be so big? Can they be resized or will this just cause problems?
 
I can only assume the 1st and 3rd partitions are reserved space for the NAS operating system, so I'd leave them alone. You could probably get away with reducing the swap space but I dont think its worth the risk considering its such a small percentage of the total drive space.
 
Yeah i thought the same, just a tad confused now :/ Total size is 930gb, copied 861gb ... only 7gb left :(

....... Ahh no worries, its letting me copy the rest across the network ... 3 hours to copy 861gb across hdd .... 3 hours to copy 50gb across the network :/

Nope, that didn't work either :(
 
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