From: Darklight on
Paul wrote:

> Gary Brown wrote:
>>>> I need to read and erase a some Ext3 formatted hard drives
>>>> from an external enclosure. There are a number of Ext3
>>> They mention USB Mass Storage devices here.
>>>
>>> http://www.fs-driver.org/relnotes.html
>>>
>>> http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html#acc_ext3
>>>
>>
>> This wouldn't read because of journalling active on the disk.
>> Required Unix, which I don't have.
>>
>> Is there an ultra simple Unix that will handle ext3 files that
>> can be booted from a CD or DVD?
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>
> This one is listed as supporting EXT3.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn_Small_Linux
>
> It might be smaller than the Knoppix and Ubuntu CDs I have here.

you could use the live cd/dvds of the above versions
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
>
> About 50MB.
>
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
>
> Paul

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