Top 15 Ext2/3/4 Filesystem Utilities Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

E2fsprogs (sometimes called the e2fs programs) is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems.

1. Explore2fs

Explore2fs Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.......

2. Funter

Funter Funter is a freeware Mac utility that can show and hide hidden and system files in Mac OS X Finder.It is light and simple to use application. Funter is helpful when you need to discover your files deep, to be sure all stuff you see.Funter can be launched at system......

3. BeeGFS

BeeGFS Why use BeeGFS?BeeGFS transparently spreads user data across multiple servers. By increasing the number of servers and disks in the system, you can simply scale performance and capacity of the file system to the level that you need, seamlessly from small clusters up to enterprise-class systems with thousands of nodes.How......

4. DiskInternals Linux Reader

DiskInternals Linux Reader A freeware tool for reading and extracting files from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4, HFS, UFS2, Reiser4, and ReiserFS partitions in Windows.......

5. Lustre

Lustre Lustre is a massively parallel filesystem designed for high-performance, large-scale data.Lustre is mature and open source (GPL2), running stably in production at many hundreds of sites around the world. Eight of the top ten and 70% of the top 100 fastest supercomputers in the world rely on Lustre for their......

6. Quobyte

Quobyte Quobyte is a complete software storage solution for reliable and scalable storage infrastructures. It turns commodity hardware into a data center file system that enables warehouse-scale storage infrastructures without compromising operations. Focused on delivering high-performance for all workloads, Quobyte is production-ready and very user-friendly with built-in management tools that enable......

7. Ceph

Ceph Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.......

8. incron

incron This program is an "inotify cron" system. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods.......

9. MooseFS

MooseFS MooseFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical locations(servers), which are visible to user as one resource. For standard file operations MooseFSacts as any other Unix-alike filesystem:• Hierarchical structure (directory tree)• Stores POSIX file attributes (permissions, last access and modification times)• Supports special files (block......

10. WizTree

WizTree WizTree scans your entire hard drive and shows you which files and folders are using the most disk space. It does this VERY QUICKLY. In fact, we believe WizTree to be the fastest application of this type currently available! Use the information WizTree provides to quickly locate and remove "space......

11. RoboScript

RoboScript RoboScript is a script written in VBS that runs Robocopy to run daily server backups. Features include email notifications, up to 100 robocopy commands, up to 100 email address can be added to receive alerts with backup status and many other features.......

12. Folder Size (by Brio)

Folder Size (by Brio) Folder Size for Windows adds a new column to the Details view in Windows Explorer. The new column shows not only the size of files, but also the size of folders. It keeps track of which folders you view, and scans them in the background so you can see complete......

13. Callback File System

Callback File System Callback File System is a programming library that lets you create virtual file systems and disks that let you expose and manage remote data as if they were files on the local disk. Callback File System is a component for use in software development for Windows platform.......

14. Multi-HDD [FUSE] filesystem

Multi-HDD [FUSE] filesystem While writing files they are written to a first HDD until the HDD has the free space (see mlimit option), then they are written ona second HDD, then to a third HDD, etc.df will show a total statistics of all filesystems like there is a big one HDD.If an overflow......

15. Makebootfat

Makebootfat This utility creates a bootable FAT filesystem and populates it with files and boot tools. It is mainly designed to create bootable USB and Fixed disk for the AdvanceCD project.......