Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/22/08:56:05
On Sep 22 14:30, Public Mailing Lists wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I got an USB hard drive, and on this disk there is a ext3 filesystem.
> This filesystem is accessible under Windows XP using a software called
> Ext2 IFS for Windows.
>
> Does Cygwin work together with this software? Is it possible to mount
> this filesystem into cygwin in a way that cygwin uses symbolic links,
> permission flags, upper/lower-case filenames etc. that are stored on
> this file-system?
Probably not. You can use every file system which can be accessed by
the underlying Windows also in Cygwin, but except for NTFS file systems,
the permission handling of the underlying file system drivers (here:
Ext2 IFS) is usually rudimentary at best. As for upper/lower case handling,
I don't know. It all depends on the driver. It has nothing to do with
Cygwin. However, Cygwin will by itself not enforce case sensitivity, but
just use the default which is usually to be case preserving.
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat, Inc.
--
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/
- Raw text -