How do I format a drive as EXT4 on Windows 7? - Super User

Hmm, I haven't tried this, but Cygwin has mke2fs in the e2fsprogs package. Take a look at: http://superuser.com/questions/314997/how-to-format-ext2-in-windows-xp and the caveat about special device names the Answer mentions: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin .

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