ext2, or second extended file system, is a file system for the Linux kernel. It was initially designed by French software developer Rémy Card as a replacement for the extended file system (ext).

Written by R'emy Card, Theodore Ts’o and Stephen Tweedie, it was a major rewrite of the Extended Filesystem. It is currently still (April 2001) the predominant filesystem in use by …

Ext2 shares many properties with traditional Unix filesystems. It has space in the specification for Access Control Lists (ACLs), fragments, undeletion and compression.

Oct 19, 2025 · Ext2 served as the de facto filesystem of Linux for nearly a decade from the early 1990s to the early 2000s when it was superseded by the journaling file systems ext3 and …

Dec 23, 2025 · The Ext2 is defined as a second extended file system. It was introduced in 1993, and it is the first commercial file system designed to overcome the limitation of the Ext file …

Nov 2, 2017 · Ext2Fsd is an open source Linux ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows systems (2K/XP/VISTA/WIN7/WIN8, X86/AMD64).

The second, third, and fourth extended file systems, or ext2, ext3, and ext4 as they are commonly known, are Linux file systems that have historically been the default file system for many Linux …

Feb 6, 2025 · What Is the ext2 File System? The second extended file system (ext2) is a disk-based file system designed for Linux, introduced in 1993 as an improvement over the original …

This article provides an in-depth look at the history and development of the Linux ext file system series, detailing the evolution from ext2 in 1993 to ext4 in 2008.

These filesystems, called ``Extended File System'' (Ext fs) and ``Second Extended File System'' (Ext2 fs) raise the limitations and add new features. In this paper, we describe the history of …