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Date: | Tue, 3 May 2005 14:59:45 -0700 (PDT) |
From: | Peter Farley <pjfarley3 AT yahoo DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: Can I mount an EXT3 partition that WinXP sees as "(Unknown partition)"? |
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FYI, explore2fs found both my boot and root partitions on the firewire external drive with no trouble. Thanks for the pointer, this is just what I needed, an easy way to copy info over to cygwin. Peter --- Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote: > At 04:00 PM 5/3/2005, you wrote: > >On a firewire-mounted external hard drive I have an > >EXT3 partition that used to be the root file system > >for an RH7.3 linux setup. Is there any way to > mount > >such a partition to cygwin when XP doesn't > recognize > >it with a drive letter? > > > >The partition is primary, not extended. > > > No. You need software that knows the filesystem > first. You can check out Paragon if you're looking > for commercial support. There is an older > free S/W driver for ext2 and NT but I haven't tried > it since NT 4 and I can't recommend it. If you're > just looking to get read access (and/or very > touchy write access) and don't mind the slowness of > a user-land utility, check out Explore2fs > <http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm>. > I don't know if it works with FireWire but it does > work fine with local ext3 partitions. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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