One of the biggest PITAs when working with linux, is mingling with Windows file systems. Say you dual boot, or need to shuffle files between a linux machine and a Windows one. FAT file systems are antiquated beasts, and NTFS in linux is likely never to be perfect. And then neither of these play nicely with permissions in linux.
Well, following a discussion on the TC forums turned up a few pretty gems, and I decided to post these three links here for (future use|posterity).
- A fairly informative article on working with FAT drives in linux: http://www.osnews.com/story/9681/The_vfat_file_system_and_Linux/page1/
- A GUI explorer tool for ext2/3 on Windows: http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs
- An ext2 driver for Windows: http://www.fs-driver.org/